Re: Why /var/cache/git?

> On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 12:22 +1100, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> > I have no problem with /var/git - it's /var/cache/git that worries
> > me, since the FHS quite clearly says that blowing away /var/cache/*
> > is not a problem.  It makes sense to back up /var/lib/ on any machine,
> > since that's somewhere that contains application data.  We already
> > back up a few things from /var/lib (like /var/lib/svn for example,
> > at least until we finish this switchover!)
> 
> Bron,
> Doing a 'git grep "/var"' on the git sources and then searching that
> output for "cache" turns up nothing. I think you'd best bring this up
> with the Debian package maintainer. Debian is well known for thinking it
> knows better than the original authors where stuff should be--and that's
> why I don't run Debian as a server (too much time spent transliterating
> paths just to make stuff work properly--when I'm lucky; it makes an
> excellent desktop for beginners).