cache.zip in repo is that a problem or not

[rusefillc]

we like to re-generate cache.zip somes a few times a day

cache.zip being a binary artifact is probably not good in terms of git practices and repo size

technically all we need is "cache" folder with files in it, not a zip achieve

[mck1117]

do we need a cache at all? Why not generate every time?

[rusefillc]

We do not want signature to change without a reason I guess?

[mck1117]

But the signature is a function of the input files, right?

[mck1117]

just store a file last_signature.txt, and if the current signature doesn't match that, then generate the files

[rusefillc]

huh? signature is random, it never matches?

[mck1117]

SIGNATURE_HASH is based only on the content of the input files, no random

[rusefillc]

@andreika-git do you remember why do we need cache.zip?

[andreika-git]

@andreika-git do you remember why do we need cache.zip?

I don't remember why the file is stored in the repo. Maybe to allow local incremental gen_config calls? When I add something small to the config, I don't want to fully rebuild everything...

[mck1117]

We don't even use it for incremental rebuilds though, plus it's just not that slow to do a generate. ./gen_config_default.sh takes 2 seconds on my machine.