html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1378#issuecomment-295657656,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1378,295657656,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDI5NTY1NzY1Ng==,668201,2017-04-20T09:50:19Z,2017-04-20T09:53:33Z,NONE,"I cannot see a use case in which repeated dims actually make sense.

In my case this situation originates from h5 files which indeed contains repeated dimensions (`variables(dimensions): uint16 B0(phony_dim_0,phony_dim_0), ..., uint8 VAA(phony_dim_1,phony_dim_1)`), thus xarray is not to blame here.
These are ""dummy"" dimensions, not associated with physical values. What we do to circumvent this problem is ""re-dimension"" all variables.
Maybe a safe approach would be for open_dataset to raise a warning by default when encountering such variables, with possibly an option to perform automatic or custom dimension naming to avoid repeated dims.
I also agree with @shoyer that failing loudly when operating on such DataArrays instead of providing confusing results would be an improvement.","{""total_count"": 5, ""+1"": 1, ""-1"": 4, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,222676855
https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1378#issuecomment-295593740,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1378,295593740,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDI5NTU5Mzc0MA==,668201,2017-04-20T06:11:02Z,2017-04-20T06:11:02Z,NONE,"Right, also positional indexing works unexpectedly in this case, though I understand it's tricky and should probably be discouraged:
```python
A[0,:]  # returns A
A[:,0]  # returns A.isel(dim0=0)
```
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