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Dominant language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Jul 15, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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162 open issues indexed

Skip saving cache when running in merge queue Open

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actions/cache#1798 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Corrupt tree object blocks mirroring Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/cache#1795 · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 24, 2026
(v6) Post check takes up to hours and status unclear after passing Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

actions/cache#1794 · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Breaks `actions/checkout` when running concurrently with it Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/cache#1793 · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Bugs Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

actions/cache#1790 · Opened Jul 24, 2026
Idiotic people Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 1/100

actions/cache#1788 · Opened Jul 24, 2026
## Pull request overview Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

actions/cache#1787 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 24, 2026
restore-keys omitted from Resolved Keys array in self-hosted container job Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

actions/cache#1785 · Opened Jul 23, 2026
Die ersten GitHub-Issues wären Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

actions/cache#1783 · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Action Docs/README out of sync and partially outdated Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

actions/cache#1779 · Opened Jul 5, 2026
Unknown stop on Ubuntu 16/18 images Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/cache#1774 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 25, 2026
Docs: sub-action READMEs still reference v5 instead of v6 Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

actions/cache#1772 · Opened Jun 25, 2026
Typo in RELEASES.md: unavailablity → unavailability Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 78/100

actions/cache#1770 · Opened Jun 25, 2026
Post cache not working on alpine runners Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

actions/cache#1765 · Opened Jun 11, 2026
"Cache entry deserialization failed, entry ignored" for Python Action Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/cache#1764 · Opened May 31, 2026
Hacker Open

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actions/cache#1763 · Opened May 31, 2026
Handle rate limit Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

actions/cache#1758 · Opened May 13, 2026
Cache/save should not run automatically from a pull_request_trigger Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/cache#1756 · 6 comments · 9 reactions · Opened May 12, 2026
Is it possible to share cache between github hosted and self-hosted runners? Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

actions/cache#1755 · 1 comment · Opened May 9, 2026
Windows runner randomly dies in `actions/cache` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

actions/cache#1754 · 4 comments · 7 reactions · Opened May 8, 2026
4286090014109159 Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 1/100

actions/cache#1742 · Opened Mar 28, 2026
Cache not found Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/cache#1735 · 8 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Mar 16, 2026
Should we clarify that action's `path` input is a multiline string, not a (yaml) list? Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/cache#1732 · Opened Mar 12, 2026
Create an option `restore-only` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

actions/cache#1730 · 5 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 9, 2026
If a workflow is canceled during cache/restore then cache/save writes a corrupt cache (Windows) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/cache#1729 · Opened Mar 4, 2026
Caching fails on IPv6 cache server Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

actions/cache#1718 · Opened Feb 7, 2026
Cache indexing lag / API propagation delay Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

actions/cache#1710 · 2 comments · 18 reactions · Opened Feb 2, 2026
Enable immutable releases Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

actions/cache#1709 · 8 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 2, 2026
Unable to reserve cache (actions/cache/save@v5) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

actions/cache#1707 · 1 comment · 11 reactions · Opened Jan 30, 2026
Cache-hit returns true when there is a match with restore-keys as well Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

actions/cache#1675 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 27, 2025
Random failures on macOS Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/cache#1674 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 24, 2025
actions/cache/save key match incorrect Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

actions/cache#1673 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 12, 2025
[BUG] SEGMENT_DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT_MINS seems to be not applied to Post Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

actions/cache#1669 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 23, 2025
Existing cache cannot be restored Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/cache#1666 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 15, 2025
Misleading error message when attempting to overwrite the existing cache Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/cache#1665 · 4 reactions · Opened Oct 15, 2025
Perform multiple caches at the same time Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/cache#1664 · Opened Oct 15, 2025
Overlap downloading and extracting Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/cache#1663 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 15, 2025
Debug logs show hashFiles generates a hash; hash gets truncated when actually saving Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

actions/cache#1661 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 14, 2025
cache is not used for a tag Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

actions/cache#1660 · Opened Oct 11, 2025
No space left on device during during extracting the tar file Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

actions/cache#1659 · Opened Oct 6, 2025
No space left on device during creating the tar file Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

actions/cache#1658 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 6, 2025
Document how a restore-key cache is chosen Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

actions/cache#1657 · Opened Sep 24, 2025
Please make it clearer that the save and restore paths must match. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

actions/cache#1653 · 3 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Sep 22, 2025
cache/save does not support restore-keys Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

actions/cache#1651 · Opened Sep 11, 2025
Cache not found for input keys Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/cache#1645 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 25, 2025
[nitpick] Capitalize the first word and consider rephrasing to 'Right now, we are not accepting contributions to this repository.' for grammatical correctness. Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/cache#1644 · Opened Aug 22, 2025
[nitpick] Capitalize the first word and consider rephrasing to 'Right now, we are not accepting contributions to this repository.' for grammatical correctness. Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

actions/cache#1643 · Opened Aug 18, 2025
cache partition or namespace support Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/cache#1641 · Opened Aug 9, 2025
Our services aren't available right now Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

actions/cache#1627 · 6 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Jul 15, 2025
`Failed to restore: getCacheEntry failed: Cache service responded with 503` when using a fork of actions/cache Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

actions/cache#1624 · Opened Jul 6, 2025

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