# Naming of repeat CSVs in Briefcase export in v1.12.1

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**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** odk-meta, odk-briefcase\
**Created:** [October 1, 2018, 5:07pm UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/naming-of-repeat-csvs-in-briefcase-export-in-v1-12-1/15495 "2018-10-01T17:07:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 2, 2018, 1:14pm UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/naming-of-repeat-csvs-in-briefcase-export-in-v1-12-1/15495/4 "2018-10-02T13:14:46Z")

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> [@ODK Meta - Repeat Groups not merging](https://forum.getodk.org/t/odk-meta-repeat-groups-not-merging/15308/20):
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> It sounds resonable to keep doing it like Briefcase v1.12.1, though. An improvement we could add is to replace any "-" in group names to something else to really prevent dupes. Do you agree on this?

This sounds great to me. It doesn't require the introduction of a new option, and it'd be easy for downstream tools like `odkmeta` to implement. The convention in XLSForm seems to be to use underscores rather than hyphens in names, so hopefully hyphens in group names are not common. What replacement character do you think would work well? Also, do you know offhand how Briefcase replaces colons in names? (Those aren't allowed in Windows filenames I think?)

Perhaps I should also try to summarize this part of the conversation for the rest of the Central team, since one goal for Central has been to export CSVs that match the Briefcase export.

> [@ODK Meta - Repeat Groups not merging](https://forum.getodk.org/t/odk-meta-repeat-groups-not-merging/15308/20):
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> In any case, I think the best would be to have Briefcase do exactly the same it was doing on v1.10, and then think about improving it. I'll prepare a change and we can have a Briefcase v1.12.2 in no time

I'm actually close to releasing a new version of `odkmeta` for the first time in a while, so I'm in a good position at the moment to implement any changes to CSV filenames.

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