Hello, I develop my site locally before transferring the changes to the production version. This local version is followed with Git. What happens to the UUID? To be clearer: I have updated my local site with Kirby 3.8.0 I tested the site I note with Git that the UUID field has been added and fi…

Ok, I found this topic: [image] Disabling creation of uuid field in content files in Kirby 3.8 Solved ✅ While certainly I appreciate the functionality and usefulness of unique IDs introduced in Kirby 3.8, I have no use for this particular feature on my sites. I want to d…

[image] Dominique: So, for a given piece of content, will the UUID field be the same in local and in production? Given the same Kirby installation, I can confirm that UUIDs generated in production are different than those generated locally.

Ok, thank you. So I can’t update my production website and have to wait 3.8.1 :frowning_face: In my understanding and opinion UUID is a Meta information that should not be mixed with the content. It should be contained in a separate file, as is done with images. This separation would have avoide…

The UUIDs are a fundamental piece of the content as they are used for references. So they absolutely need to match between different environments. This should be done by generating all UUIDs in one go during the migration. Please see our migration guide: [image] Migration guide for site d…

The point is not about importance but about implementation: editorial content is thus mixed with technical information. In other words, information created by the author is mixed with information created by the CMS. Before this, the content could be created directly by the author only from a text e…

I understand your point and I agree with you in general. If you manage your content by hand and don’t use the Panel, UUIDs are a technical feature that may get in the way (depending on your site’s structure and the way you manage the content). This is the reason why we will add the option to disable…

Ok, thanks for the clarifications! I misunderstood: it is obvious that this has nothing to do with Git which in this case is a revelator of what the content files have modified automatically. :slight_smile:

[image] lukasbestle: But on the other hand, a separate file would dramatically lower the system performance (because two files need to be opened and read for every page). This is why we decided to store UUIDs in the same content file. One solution to consider is to store the information in th…

[image] Dominique: One solution to consider is to store the information in the file name itself and not in the content. The file name is already reserved for the template name. And the directory name is the URL path. [image] Dominique: And then the expected performance gains or rather th…

[image] Dominique: respecting the rule that separates the user’s content from that of the CMS. That sounds to me as if a database wouldn’t automatically store ids, because they are not user-defined content.

UUID problem using git or similar tool?

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UUID problem using git or similar tool?

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