[BUG] stat cache doesn't handle old pathnames with new ids properly

[Aaron Bentley]

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Martin Pool wrote:
> On  3 Jul 2005, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:

>>Is there any particular reason why the statcache is indexed by id,
>>rather than pathname?

> I don't think there's any good reason.

Oh, and a more wacky approach would be to index by stat data, instead of
id or pathname.  That would mean you could rename or move the file
without having to SHA-1 it again.  Probably not worth the loss of
clarity over indexing by pathname, but a fun idea.

Aaron
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