This should speed up CI builds on future submissio...

# strikt

[Dan Rusu]

This should speed up CI builds on future submissions:
https://github.com/robfletcher/strikt/pull/281

[Dan Rusu]

This reduced CI times by about a minute on my own project so I'm hoping to see a similar improvement here

[robfletcher]

cool. I’ll take a look

[robfletcher]

doesn’t seem to have made much difference for Strikt

[Dan Rusu]

I just skimmed the gradle-build-action docs and noticed that the cache is only written from the main / master branch and other branches can read from the cache:
https://github.com/marketplace/actions/gradle-build-action#using-the-caches-read-only

It looks like only the last run was on the main branch so I would expect the next run to start using the caches 🤞:
https://github.com/robfletcher/strikt/actions

[robfletcher]

I was about to ask if it was something like that

[robfletcher]

cool

[robfletcher]

there, I just pushed a change, let’s see

[robfletcher]

cut the run time by about 1/3

[Dan Rusu]

nice! 🎉

[robfletcher]

thanks. I had seen caching done with some explicit steps before, but it’s good they’ve packaged it to be easier to use

[Dan Rusu]

Yeah, I've seen it with one of the other github actions (maybe checkout). Apparently the gradle-build-action uses more sophisticated caching resulting in better ci times