Re: Implications of duplicate UUIDs on a server

On 2025-04-29 18:53, LWChris wrote:
> Therefore we suspect it was some kind of caching issue in the SVN 
> server (WANdisco) due to same path same UUID same commit number; after 
> restarting the SVN server, the issue went away. But I don't know if 
> WANdisco is a "typical server implementation", or if the issue was 
> something deeper, or if the issues are related at all or pure 
> coincidence, etc.


WANdisco is not a typical Subversion server implementation. For 
synchronous multi-site replication (as opposed to svn sync which is 
asynchronous), it provides a proxy layer with a consensus protocol  
(think PAXOS, wsrep, raft). Notable the replication requires the 
representation of candidate transaction into a serialzied format that. 
It is conceivable that non-unique UUIDs may cause hick-ups, but I would 
not exclude the possibility that this is also a general problem of plain 
svn.

Andreas