Reveal a little bit more detail about what we cache (#858)

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Philipp Hagemeister 2014-01-03 10:57:31 +01:00
parent 0f30658329
commit 7c094bfe2f

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@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ def _hide_login_info(opts):
general.add_option('--no-check-certificate', action='store_true', dest='no_check_certificate', default=False, help='Suppress HTTPS certificate validation.')
general.add_option(
'--cache-dir', dest='cachedir', default=get_cachedir(), metavar='DIR',
help='Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl can store some downloaded information permanently. By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME/youtube-dl or ~/.cache/youtube-dl .')
help='Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl can store some downloaded information permanently. By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME/youtube-dl or ~/.cache/youtube-dl . At the moment, only YouTube player files (for videos with obfuscated signatures) are cached, but that may change.')
general.add_option(
'--no-cache-dir', action='store_const', const=None, dest='cachedir',
help='Disable filesystem caching')