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[Content]: Improve descriptions for cache/* and clear-caches/* console commands

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
58/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Domain
cli, documentation

Research direction

Start with the linked Craft CMS CLI reference sections for cache/* and clear-caches/*. Review every command description and verify what each command clears, including files, folders, and database tables. Done means the documentation clearly identifies the affected resources for all commands, including those whose behavior is not immediately apparent.

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Description

📦 CMS
Product

Craft CMS

Description

I've long been confused about some of the cache/* and clear-caches/* console commands, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

It would be greatly appreciated if these could be improved to detail exactly which files, folders, database tables, etc are cleared out when running these commands. Some like clear-caches/cp-resources are easily apparent, but just to have full clarification on all of them would bring a lot of peace of mind.

Dominant language
JavaScript
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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