Developer Warns Common CI Cache Antipattern Blows Storage Limits

Developer Daniel Lockyer warns that writing caches on every PR build can exhaust the default 10-25GB CI cache limit and trigger LRU eviction; instead, only main branch builds should write caches while PRs read from them.

2026-11-04 ~ 2026-11-04 · 2 related posts

• CI cache blowout fix: write cache only on pushes to main, restore-only on PRs — DanielLockyer · 2026-11-04

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