Implement artificial cache sepration

To avoid repeated downloads, bazel has a cache of files, indexed
by their (sha256) hash. If a file is requested with a hash already
in cache, the file is taken from cache instead. However, in some
cases, users think about a different identifier as canonical for
that file than (the hash of) its contents, causing unexpected
results when this identifier is updated but the sha256 sum is not.
To avoid those cache hits, allow the canonical id to be specified
in the download API.

Design document: https://github.com/bazelbuild/proposals/blob/master/designs/2019-04-29-cache.md

Closes #5144 as users can specify a canonical id, including
the URL if they so desire, to make cache hits depend upon.

Change-Id: Ic355b6550f4ca06f91828b11efe92210ac834cb5
PiperOrigin-RevId: 249041811
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  7. tools/
  8. .bazelrc
  9. .gitattributes
  10. .gitignore
  11. AUTHORS
  12. BUILD
  13. CHANGELOG.md
  14. CODEOWNERS
  15. combine_distfiles.py
  16. combine_distfiles_to_tar.sh
  17. compile.sh
  18. CONTRIBUTING.md
  19. CONTRIBUTORS
  20. distdir.bzl
  21. ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md
  22. LICENSE
  23. README.md
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