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# cache-artifacts
A shortcut action to cache Julia artifacts.
# julia-actions/cache Action
Using this action is equivalent to including the following step in your workflows:
```yaml
- uses: actions/cache@v1
env:
cache-name: cache-artifacts
with:
path: ~/.julia/artifacts
key: ${{ runner.os }}-test-${{ env.cache-name }}-${{ hashFiles('**/Project.toml') }}
restore-keys: |
${{ runner.os }}-test-${{ env.cache-name }}-
```
A shortcut action to cache Julia artifacts, packages and (optionally) registries to reduce GitHub Actions running time.
## Usage
### Inputs
An example workflow that uses this action might look like this:
```yaml
- uses: julia-actions/cache-artifacts@v1
with:
# The cache name is used as part of the cache key.
# It is equivalent to the cache-name environment variable in the snippet above.
#
# Default: cache-artifacts
cache-name: ''
name: CI
on: [push, pull_request]
jobs:
test:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v1
- uses: julia-actions/cache@v1
- uses: julia-actions/julia-buildpkg@v1
- uses: julia-actions/julia-runtest@v1
```
By default, this caches the files in `~/.julia/artifacts/` and `~/.julia/packages/`.
To also cache `~/.julia/registries/`, use
```yaml
- uses: julia-actions/cache@v1
with:
cache-registries: "true"
```
Note that caching the registries may actually slow down the workflow running time on Windows runners.
That is why caching the registries is disabled by default.
### Inputs
- `cache-name` - Name used as part of the cache keys
- `cache-artifacts` - Whether to cache `~/.julia/artifacts/`. Enabled by default.
- `cache-packages` - Whether to cache `~/.julia/packages/`. Enabled by default.
- `cache-registries` - Whether to cache `~/.julia/registries/`. Disabled by default.
### Outputs
```yaml
outputs:
# A boolean value to indicate an exact match was found for the primary key.
# Forwarded from actions/cache, check its documentation for more info.
cache-hit: ''
```
- `cache-hit` - A boolean value to indicate an exact match was found for the primary key. Returns \"\" when the key is new. Forwarded from actions/cache.
## How it works
This action is a wrapper around <https://github.com/actions/cache>.
In summary, this action stores the files in the aforementioned paths in one compressed file when running for the first time.
This cached file is then restored upon the second run.
The benefit of this is that downloading one big file is more quick than downloading many different files from many different locations.
## Third Party Notice
This action is built around [`actions/cache`](https://github.com/actions/cache/) and includes parts of that action. `actions/cache` has been released under the following licence:
> The MIT License (MIT)
>
> Copyright (c) 2018 GitHub, Inc. and contributors