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authorMatthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>2016-04-13 09:26:59 -0400
committerMatthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>2016-04-13 09:26:59 -0400
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doc: Explain .xdg-app-builder
This directory can grow quite large (my local example here is 900M), so we should document that it is safe to remove.
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</refsect1>
<refsect1>
+ <title>Caching</title>
+
+ <para>
+ xdg-app-builder caches sources and partial build results in
+ the .xdg-app-builder subdirectory of the current directory. If you
+ use <option>--keep-build-dirs</option>, build directories for each
+ module are also stored here.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ It is safe to remove the contents of the .xdg-app-builder
+ directory. This will force a full build the next time you build.
+ </para>
+
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
<title>Examples</title>
<para>