// delete marker, if not add a new version for this delete
				// marker.
				if versioned {
					vr.VersionID = mustGetUUID()
				}
			}
		}
		// De-dup same object name to collect multiple versions for same object.
		v, ok := versionsMap[objects[i].ObjectName]
		if ok {
			v.Versions = append(v.Versions, vr)
		} else {
			v = FileInfoVersions{

			// of this fashion such as
			//  - foo-1
			//  - foo-1/
			// we should avoid this situation by making sure that
			// we compare the `foo-1/` after path.Clean() to
			// de-dup the entries.
			if path.Clean(best.name) == path.Clean(other.name) {
				toMerge = append(toMerge, otherIdx)
				continue
			}
			if best.name > other.name {
				toMerge = toMerge[:0]
				best = other

	}

	// Sanity check. Enable if duplicates show up.
	if false {
		found := make(map[[16]byte]struct{})
		for _, ver := range merged {
			if _, ok := found[ver.header.VersionID]; ok {
				panic("found dupe")
			}
			found[ver.header.VersionID] = struct{}{}
		}
	}
	return merged
}

type xlMetaBuf []byte

// ToFileInfo converts xlMetaV2 into a common FileInfo datastructure