There *are* several roms which have identical names but different hash values within a parent/clone relationship in MAME...which would lead to some issues if you merge them manually.
So...cmpro warns you about them during data import and either removes the parent/clone relationship or forces you to split-merged/unmerged usage..depending on your selection.
Of course you can either don't care about filenames and rename them or keep clones inside (zip) subfolders of the parent ....manually.....