Issue 2182: Tag Darcs cache directory with CACHEDIR.TAG - Darcs bug tracker

Title	Tag Darcs cache directory with CACHEDIR.TAG
Priority	wishlist	Status	given-up
Milestone		Resolved in
Superseder		Nosy List	MaicoLeberle, jaredj, mdiaz, nomeata
Assigned To	MaicoLeberle	Topics	ProbablyEasy

Created on 2012-04-20.19:53:47 by nomeata, last changed 2017-07-31.01:53:42 by gh.

Messages
msg15584 (view)	Author: nomeata	Date: 2012-04-20.19:53:46
Originally reported at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=642350: Darcs creates a cache directory in the user's home directory. Various backup utilities can automatically exclude cache directories if tagged via the "Cache Directory Tagging" standard (http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/). Doing so requires creating a file CACHEDIR.TAG in the cache directory, containing the contents "Signature: 8a477f597d28d172789f06886806bc55". Please consider implementing this standard by creating this file, so that backup software can automatically exclude this cache.
msg15617 (view)	Author: kowey	Date: 2012-04-25.14:27:46
Hooray, a good ProbablyEasy candidate!
msg17245 (view)	Author: gh	Date: 2014-03-29.22:26:56
Since a couple of months darcs puts the cache in ~/.cache/darcs ($XDG_CACHE_HOME/darcs/) so I don't know if this is still useful. On the 51 directories I have inside my ~/.cache/ only one (fontconfig) has this CACHEDIR.TAG file.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2012-04-20 19:53:47	nomeata	create
2012-04-25 14:27:48	kowey	set	status: unknown -> needs-implementation topic: + ProbablyEasy title: Please tag Darcs cache directory with CACHEDIR.TAG -> Tag Darcs cache directory with CACHEDIR.TAG messages: + msg15617 nosy: + jaredj
2014-03-22 23:39:43	gh	set	assignedto: mdiaz nosy: + mdiaz
2014-03-29 22:26:58	gh	set	messages: + msg17245
2015-03-27 22:37:11	gh	set	assignedto: mdiaz -> MaicoLeberle nosy: + MaicoLeberle
2017-07-31 01:53:42	gh	set	status: needs-implementation -> given-up