From cb9b3e6987b3fce12ab2132da7cf9a60b55d0dfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 09:26:59 -0400
Subject: 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.
---
 doc/xdg-app-builder.xml | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc')

diff --git a/doc/xdg-app-builder.xml b/doc/xdg-app-builder.xml
index d3731b7..7dbcca9 100644
--- a/doc/xdg-app-builder.xml
+++ b/doc/xdg-app-builder.xml
@@ -671,6 +671,23 @@
           </variablelist>
     </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>
 
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