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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="zardoz"
+ ip="78.48.163.229"
+ subject="comment 2"
+ date="2014-08-16T11:42:22Z"
+ content="""
+Hm, I don’t quite follow the remark on having everything in a single
+directory. Rather than saying that the relative path adds additional
+entropy, what I was aiming at is the file-system cannot have two
+alternate versions of one file name at the same path with the same
+mtime, and that’s why it occurred to me that encoding both path and
+mtime within the key doesn’t just increase the odds, but effectively
+_guarantees_ that there won’t be any collisions. Does this seem to
+hold up, or am I missing something? (Of course one can fudge the
+mtimes, but that’s something under the user’s control.)
+
+While a large repo with many files very likely has lots of distinct
+files with identical basename, mtime (in s.) and size, all these files
+with the same mtime must necessarily be located at different paths.
+
+"""]]