Mark cache directories with a CACHEDIR.TAG file to avoid backing up unnecessary data

[flyte]

Please could you add the file CACHEDIR.TAG to any directories that contain ephemeral cache files so that our backups don't contain lots of useless files?

More information at https://bford.info/cachedir/ and this duplicates #144028 which was unfortunately closed due lack of votes, but the issue is still relevant.

This would seem to be a very trivial feature to implement, whereas it causes a fair bit of work for anyone to work around, considering the various and numerous directories used by VS Code to cache files.

This is not solved by #3884 although a workaround would be made simpler if VS Code didn't put cache files in the user's /home/<username>/.config directory and instead put them in a dedicated cache location.

[flyte]

Tagging users who were interested in the previous issue:
@BachoSeven @Zweihander-Main @MadnessASAP @klemens @FliegendeWurst @sbucek @Thell @bohni

[vscodenpa]

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[vscodenpa]

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