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Dominant language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Jul 15, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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windows-latest cache is not compatible with windows-11-arm Open

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actions/cache#1622 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 23, 2025
Restore does not fall back to gzip if zstd is present Open

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

actions/cache#1619 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 5, 2025
Fix issues Open

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

actions/cache#1618 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 5, 2025
Internal error Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

actions/cache#1611 · 8 comments · 38 reactions · Opened May 27, 2025
Document GITHUB_TOKEN permissions needed explicitely Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/cache#1608 · 3 reactions · Opened May 25, 2025
Cache miss for existing cache Open

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

actions/cache#1606 · 8 comments · 6 reactions · Opened May 17, 2025
actions/cache@v4 - Error - sometime running into "hashFiles('**/pom.xml') couldn't finish within 120 seconds" Open

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

actions/cache#1603 · Opened May 8, 2025
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format. ( Cache restore not working) Open

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

actions/cache#1596 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 21, 2025
Github-hosted runner-generated cache entry not found from self-hosted runner using action (though findable through REST API) Open

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

actions/cache#1595 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 17, 2025
v4 not using the new cache service Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

actions/cache#1594 · 2 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Apr 16, 2025
Errors out on pip cache (no changes, worked fine until now) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

actions/cache#1593 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 16, 2025
Caching CocoaPods takes long time to restore Open

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

actions/cache#1592 · Opened Apr 16, 2025
Rename `restore-keys` to `fallback-keys` or `backup-keys` or `partial-restore-keys` Open

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

actions/cache#1590 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 15, 2025
Post run error: "Path Validation Error: Path(s) specified in the action for caching do(es) not exist, hence no cache is being saved.! Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

actions/cache#1588 · 1 comment · 20 reactions · Opened Apr 10, 2025
Tries to access zstd inside /root/.local directory for some reason Open

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

actions/cache#1584 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 4, 2025
actions/cache/save does not fail the step on error Open

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

actions/cache#1581 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 27, 2025
actions/cache fails when current folder has spaces Open

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

actions/cache#1580 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 26, 2025
Unexpected cache miss Open

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

actions/cache#1574 · 2 comments · 9 reactions · Opened Mar 16, 2025
Can we cache aws-actions/setup-sam@v2 atrifacts ? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

actions/cache#1573 · Opened Mar 14, 2025
Feat: Control whether caches are written Open

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

actions/cache#1570 · 3 comments · 9 reactions · Opened Mar 11, 2025
#749 Duplicate of #749 Open

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

actions/cache#1569 · Opened Mar 9, 2025
Feat: Delete old cache keys Open

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

actions/cache#1568 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 9, 2025
`cache-hit` needs to be replaced Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

actions/cache#1566 · 4 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 6, 2025
Main Open

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

actions/cache#1565 · Opened Mar 5, 2025
Cache miss for existing keys when merging PRs Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

actions/cache#1561 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 26, 2025
Cache miss even though has cache before with exact restore key Open

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

actions/cache#1556 · 9 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Feb 17, 2025
Failed to Restore Cache with zstd: Unsupported Format for a Saved Cache Open

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

actions/cache#1555 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 16, 2025
How can I prevent storing cache for pull request branches Open

question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

actions/cache#1551 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 12, 2025
Multiple backend service versions used in same workflow execution Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

actions/cache#1547 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 11, 2025
guessing new backend is case-sensitive in base image name? Open

bug

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

actions/cache#1544 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 11, 2025
Cache restore seemingly ignoring `path` key Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

actions/cache#1540 · 18 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Feb 7, 2025
Bug: cannot update cache in Cargo project Open

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

actions/cache#1539 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 28, 2025
Support cache for merge queues Open

enhancement feature request

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actions/cache#1537 · 6 comments · Opened Jan 23, 2025
Trying to cache android sdk or cmdline tools doesn't work due to invalid path warning while path exists Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/cache#1534 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 17, 2025
Consider making tar preserve permissions, uid, and guid Open

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

actions/cache#1533 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Jan 14, 2025
False positive cache hit Open

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

actions/cache#1531 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 11, 2025
Support `working-directory` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/cache#1529 · 4 reactions · Opened Jan 10, 2025
The process '/usr/bin/tar' failed with exit code 1 -- file changed as we read it Open

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

actions/cache#1522 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 19, 2024
Cache priority Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

actions/cache#1521 · Opened Dec 16, 2024
Documentation is unclear about `cache-hit`'s value when the cache misses. Open

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

actions/cache#1513 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Dec 11, 2024
Why post-action is so slow? Open

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

actions/cache#1508 · 1 comment · 13 reactions · Opened Dec 3, 2024
Cache entry from default branch considered out of scope for reusable workflow run on tag Open

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

actions/cache#1491 · 9 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Oct 31, 2024
takes extremely long to cache on windows Open

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

actions/cache#1490 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 30, 2024
Examples use deprecated `set-output` Open

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actions/cache#1469 · Opened Oct 15, 2024
Fails to cache in certain environments on windows 2019 Open

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

actions/cache#1468 · Opened Oct 14, 2024
actions/cache/save can not handle circular symbolic links in saved paths (ELOOP: too many symbolic links encountered) Open

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

actions/cache#1460 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 7, 2024
restore a varying number of different keys? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

actions/cache#1459 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 6, 2024
Cache Save/Restore is not working between GitHub Runner and Container, even with the same absolute path. Open

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

actions/cache#1455 · 11 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Aug 29, 2024
Unexpected errors without any logs Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

actions/cache#1449 · Opened Aug 12, 2024
restore-keys not being tried when another other exact key has different scope Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

actions/cache#1446 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 8, 2024

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