On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 08:20:25AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

shejialuo [off-list ref] writes:

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I want to know whether we should use the "cache" mechanism of CI for
these third-party softwares? I somehow feel strange that we would
download these softwares in every CI.

It also feels wasteful to me that the CI jobs need to do a full
install-dependencies.sh over and over, instead of running it once
(per platform type), dumping the state, and let all the other jobs
on the same platform type to restart from that state ;-).

That's right. I'll investigate how to implement this.