Why do the fieldLayouts UIDs change so much?

[tremby]

What question would you like to ask?

I've noticed in code review that we sometimes get conflicts on the UID (they look like UIDs at least) keys under fieldLayouts in config/project/neoBlockTypes/*.yaml files. As far as I can tell, neither of the two UIDs in my conflict-marked file correspond to anything in any other yaml file or any filename. Maybe they correspond to something in the database? I never know what to do in this situation, and I tend to cross my fingers and guess, and so far nothing has gone horribly wrong.

I'm not sure exactly when it changes. It seems to change if I save the neo field after somebody else has edited it. It doesn't seem to change again if I then edit it again myself.

Why does it change? How can I know which value is correct? Is this a bug? Can it be made stable?

[ttempleton]

This is definitely a bug. Looking into it now.

[ttempleton]

Thanks for reporting this one as well. It's now fixed for the next release, which will be early next week (hoping to close #842 and #813 first).