Incorrect / misleading documentation about CP_HOME_DIR

[wujek-srujek]

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What did you do?

I read the documentation FAQ section.

Here: https://guides.cocoapods.org/using/faq.html, under 'Can I change the default CocoaPods repositories folder' it says that using CP_HOME_DIR changes both repo and caches directory, but this is not correct - both by observing the behavior, and also evidenced by the comment here: #9225 (comment)

Please update the documentation to be correct.

What did you expect to happen?

I expected to get correct information.

What happened instead?

I got incorrect / misleading information.

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[Andrey Vyazovoy]

I'm not sure that the described issue does exist.
Here is a simple experiment that you can run in your project:

rm -rf Pods
mkdir .cocoapods
CP_HOME_DIR=.cocoapods bundle exec pod install

Here is what I see in my directory tree:

So, looks like the environment variable does what it supposed to.

[wujek-srujek]

I apologize, you are right.

In my case, as I was testing it the first time, the pods were already available in the project in the Pods/ subfolder, so removing ~/Library/Caches/CocoaPods and running pod install didn't create the caches dir. This got me searching and then I found the comment in one of the issues, which reassured me in my fallacy.

Now I tested again, after cleaning everything everywhere, and you are right, CP_HOME_DIR does contain both the repos and the caches.