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[Kristoffer Ödmark <kristofferodmark90@xxxxxxxxx>]

It would be trivial if the "duplicate tool" either generated new unique 
identifiers or left the unique identfier value empty.

I honestly dont understand why to have unique identifiers if they are 
not unique, so maybe this should be a bug? I know they are referenced as 
"timestamps" in the code, but everywhere they are used, they seem to 
represent a unique identifier.

 -Kristoffer

On 01/23/2018 01:51 PM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
> I *think* it has been done to easily get board state coherent with
> schematics, no questions asked. It means that it should delete
> components that do not occur in the schematics.
>
> Regarding the bug report: I suppose the duplicated components get the
> same sheet path, so the netlist updater treats them as if they were
> legit components placed in the schematics. Even if it could realize that
> there are duplicates, it would be hard to decide which one is the
> original to be kept.
>
> On 01/23/2018 12:57 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
> > Ping.  (I’ll log a bug on this if I’m not crazy, but I just want to make sure I don’t have the wrong end of the stick first….)
> >
> > > On 13 Jan 2018, at 23:02, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Update PCB from Schematic is a shortcut for eeschema Annotate + eeschema Write Netlist + pcbnew Read Netlist, right?
> > >
> > > Is there a reason the Update PCB from Schematic dialog doesn’t include the “keep/delete” options we have in the Read Netlist dialog?
> > >
> > > (It appears to mostly do a delete, but not entirely: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1682970 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1682970> )
> >
> >
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