The template of this meme is that of the man who cheerfully points his hand at a butterfly, asking “Is this a pigeon”?. In this meme, the man has been covered with icons of the applications IntelliJ, VSCode, Chromium and Signal. The butterfly which he points to is overlaid with the caption “.config”. He asks “Is this a trash can?” At the bottom of the image, we see the command du -sh executed on the directories .config/chromium/ and .config/Code, yielding file sizes of 1016M and 83M respectively.

  • kevincox@lemmy.ml
    5·
    9 hours ago

    For .config it isn’t as important to me, but putting things that can be re-created in .cache (well the proper environment variable that defaults to .cache) is very nice because I don’t need to back up all of that junk.

    But it wouldn’t be unreasonable to put something like .config in a git repo, and storing full history for large and frequently changing files is a waste of space if they aren’t really “config”.

      • PoolloverNathan@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        The point is that many programs completely ignore .cache’s existence — when programs do actually use it, adding a backup exception is trivial, but having to manually find what’s actually cache in .config (or, even worse, finding one SQLite database with the config and cache) complicates it.