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GitHub Action

Purge cache

v1

Purge cache

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Purge cache

Purge GitHub Actions cache

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

 
              
- name: Purge cache

              
  uses: MyAlbum/purge-cache@v1
Learn more about this action in MyAlbum/purge-cache

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purge-cache

This action allows the cache of GitHub Actions to be automatically purged

Basic usage

See action.yml

steps:
# Do other steps like checkout, install, compile, etc.
- uses: MyAlbum/purge-cache
  with:
    max-age: 604800 # Cache max 7 days since last use (this is the default)

Other options

Debug

Output debug data (defaults to false)

  • Number of caches
  • Skipped caches
  • Deleted caches
steps:
# Do other steps like checkout, install, compile, etc.
- uses: MyAlbum/purge-cache
  with:
    debug: true # Set to true to output debug info

Token

Set a GitHub token, will default to ${github.token}. This will probably not be nessesary as the default token should be sufficient

steps:
# Do other steps like checkout, install, compile, etc.
- uses: MyAlbum/purge-cache
  with:
    token: $GITHUBTOKEN # Set a GitHub token