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by mroche 43 days ago
You may need to have certain directories be excluded depending on the programs you use. For example, the default Chrome profile location is within ~/.config, which includes cache data that can be multiple gigabytes in size.
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Ouch. It doesn't respect `$XDG_CACHE_HOME`?
Browsers are some of the most annoyingly configured applications out there.
That's what .gitignore is for ;)