On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 08:20:25AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > shejialuo <shejialuo@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > 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.