Hello,
I’m watching a weird behaviour when using GitLab caches, and I can’t find anyone asking about this.
I have a node project, with a CI which caches the .npm/ file using as key the lock file, based on the GitLab documentation:
type-checks:
image: CUSTOM_IMAGE
stage: test
before_script:
- npm ci --cache .npm --prefer-offline
script:
- npm run test
cache:
key:
files:
- package-lock.json
paths:
- .npm/
When I re-run the pipeline, I see that the cache file is properly downloaded, but after it runs, the cache file is republished although it has the very same hash:
Is there any way to avoid republishing if it sees that the cache hash is the same? Makes no sense to me.