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Neato. How is "spatial locality" defined? Just distance in the filesystem tree?

With logical coupling, if two entities are changed together many times, they get a shorter distance.

distance(e1, e2) = 1/c(e1, e2) if c(e1, e2) > 0 otherwise infinity. c(e1, e2) is the count of times e1 and e2 have been changed together.

I have not implemented the spatial entity in v0, as it is a bit tricky to identify the exact file that introduced a bug from a fix commit. For now, only the files modified in a bug-fix commit are put in the cache.

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