Is there a way to store cache after some special step and then continue workflow ?

[kuvaldini]

I have a job with the steps like:

job:
  steps:
    - checkout
    - actions/cache@v2
    - build
    #- I'd like to store cache at this moment 
    - test

Is there a way to store cache after some special step and then continue workflow ?

[wmertens]

Same. Use case: install pnpm modules and then immediately store cache, before running the actual job which might fail

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[wmertens]

I worked around it with a separate step that doesn't run the build. It's not great because you do a teardown in between but ok.

[kuvaldini]

@wmertens did you solve the problem? Let us look at it.

[steven-johnson]

+1

[tanuj077]

Same. Use case: install pnpm modules and then immediately store cache, before running the actual job which might fail

@wmertens can you please me understand better why would the job fail here?

[wmertens]

@tanuj077 even something as simple as eslint failing should fail the job but retain the cache

[kotewar]

@wmertens Is the ask similar to https://github.com/actions/cache/issues/272

[wmertens]

@kotewar yes this seems to be a duplicate

[kotewar]

Closing as duplicate, we'll post further updates in #272.

[kotewar]

Hey all, 👋🏽

We have created a discussion with a proposal that we feel will solve this problem, do let us know your feedback, thanks 😊