See ["Caching dependencies to speed up workflows"](https://help.github.com/github/automating-your-workflow-with-github-actions/caching-dependencies-to-speed-up-workflows).
## What's New
* Added support for multiple paths, [glob patterns](https://github.com/actions/toolkit/tree/main/packages/glob), and single file caches.
* Increased performance and improved cache sizes using `zstd` compression for Linux and macOS runners
* Allowed caching for all events with a ref. See [events that trigger workflow](https://help.github.com/en/actions/reference/events-that-trigger-workflows) for info on which events do not have a `GITHUB_REF`
* Released the [`@actions/cache`](https://github.com/actions/toolkit/tree/main/packages/cache) npm package to allow other actions to utilize caching
* Added a best-effort cleanup step to delete the archive after extraction to reduce storage space
Refer [here](https://github.com/actions/cache/blob/v1/README.md) for previous versions
## Usage
## Usage
### Pre-requisites
### Pre-requisites
@ -39,13 +8,15 @@ Create a workflow `.yml` file in your repositories `.github/workflows` directory
* `path` - A list of files, directories, and wildcard patterns to cache and restore. See [`@actions/glob`](https://github.com/actions/toolkit/tree/main/packages/glob) for supported patterns.
* `path` - A list of files, directories, and wildcard patterns to cache and restore. See [`@actions/glob`](https://github.com/actions/toolkit/tree/main/packages/glob) for supported patterns.
* `key` - An explicit key for restoring and saving the cache
* `key` - An explicit key for restoring and saving the cache
* `restore-keys` - An ordered list of keys to use for restoring the cache if no cache hit occurred for key
* `restore-keys` - An ordered list of keys to use for restoring the cache if no cache hit occurred for key
- [Swift - Swift Package Manager](./examples.md#swift---swift-package-manager)
## Creating a cache key
## How to Contribute
A cache key can include any of the contexts, functions, literals, and operators supported by GitHub Actions.
> First, you'll need to have a reasonably modern version of `node` handy. This won't work with versions older than 9, for instance.
For example, using the [`hashFiles`](https://help.github.com/en/actions/reference/context-and-expression-syntax-for-github-actions#hashfiles) function allows you to create a new cache when dependencies change.
Install the dependencies
```bash
$ npm install
```
```yaml
Build the typescript and package it for distribution
See [Using contexts to create cache keys](https://help.github.com/en/actions/configuring-and-managing-workflows/caching-dependencies-to-speed-up-workflows#using-contexts-to-create-cache-keys)
## Change action.yml
## Cache Limits
The action.yml contains defines the inputs and output for your action.
A repository can have up to 5GB of caches. Once the 5GB limit is reached, older caches will be evicted based on when the cache was last accessed. Caches that are not accessed within the last week will also be evicted.
Update the action.yml with your name, description, inputs and outputs for your action.
## Skipping steps based on cache-hit
See the [documentation](https://help.github.com/en/articles/metadata-syntax-for-github-actions)
Using the `cache-hit` output, subsequent steps (such as install or build) can be skipped when a cache hit occurs on the key.
## Change the Code
Example:
Most toolkit and CI/CD operations involve async operations so the action is run in an async function.
> Note: The `id` defined in `actions/cache` must match the `id` in the `if` statement (i.e. `steps.[ID].outputs.cache-hit`)
See the [toolkit documentation](https://github.com/actions/toolkit/blob/master/README.md#packages) for the various packages.
## Publish to a Distribution Branch
Actions are run from GitHub repos so we will checkin the packed dist folder.
```bash
$ npm run all
$ git add -A
$ git commit -m "your commit message"
$ git tag v[version from package.json]
$ git push origin v[version from package.json]
```
## Contributing
Your action is now published! :rocket:
We would love for you to contribute to `actions/cache`, pull requests are welcome! Please see the [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for more information.
## License
See the [versioning documentation](https://github.com/actions/toolkit/blob/master/docs/action-versioning.md)
The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the [MIT License](LICENSE)