How did you find out about cargo-cache?

[matthiaskrgr]

Hi, if you read this and use cargo cache, please let me know how you found out about this project and leave a comment on this ticket. :) I am curious to know!

[demurgos]

I wanted to completely clear my cargo cache. I searched for cargo clear cache and this repo was one of the top results (using Duck Duck Go).

[Zooce]

Just learned about this on Twitter now and will be trying this out today: https://twitter.com/DappForce/status/1183111484911566848?s=09

[jmitchell]

I noticed cargo search --help suggests --offline might do something useful and figured it would inspect the cache. Turns out it doesn't (see also: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/1506).

$ cargo search --offline -- nom
error: can't make HTTP request in the offline mode

After some manual poking around in my ~/.cargo/registry/cache/ I searched the web for cargo search cache and found a link to this project on crates.io.

$ cargo install cargo-cache
$ cargo cache query nom
Registry cache sorted by name:
	nom-4.2.3: 115343
	nom-5.0.1: 128602

Registry source cache sorted by name:
	nom-4.2.3: 656802
	nom-5.0.1: 788878

It works! Thanks.

[didil]

I was actually looking for something different, a global cache for cargo builds across different projects ... But this also sounds very useful thanks :)

[matthiaskrgr]

You might be looking for sccache.

[twe4ked]

Star from Jon!

[matthiaskrgr]

Thanks!

Also just found this twitter thread mentioning it: https://twitter.com/nick_r_cameron/status/1237481127129960448

[mzabaluev]

Explained in https://github.com/matthiaskrgr/cargo-cache/issues/76#issuecomment-629653999 (while advocating for a new feature).

[CPerezz]

Had the same exact idea. Was gonna be my toy project. Now I'll need to find something new! hehehe. Nice job with this crate!

[mainrs]

Found it on the issue tracker: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/3289

[seanfisk]

I found this issue itself through the link generated from @SirWindfield's comment above 😁

My company has some Rust shared libraries hosted on a private Git server. I set up a launchd agent on macOS to add my identity to ssh-agent and wanted to make sure it was working. I was looking for a way to clear out downloaded Git repos that were cached so I could try again from a clean state. cargo-cache worked great!

[numero-744]

Seen it mentioned in Rust's Matrix channel, immediately installed :smiley:

[exoosh]

Found it via your comment in via rust-lang/cargo#3289

[peter-lyons-kehl]

Hi Matthias,

I found about your cargo cache when low on disk space on my GIT/Rust partition :).

The source was some article about purging the cargo cache, and/or about cleaning up when cargo artifacts/cache is sick. Either way, thank you.