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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Greg Hudson <gh...@MIT.EDU> on 2002/12/16 05:21:31 UTC

Repository GUID design

I'll take a stab at writing down what a repository guid is all about.

PROPERTIES OF A GUID
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A guid is a byte string.  The only thing you can do with its contents
is compare them with another guid's contents for equality.  Ideally,
new guids are made up in such a way that the same guid is never
invented twice.