fix: prune after installing #187
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The post action will execute too late to actually improve any caching. By pruning directly after running pnpm install(s), we make sure the store is as clean as possible before continuing. This means any attempt to cache the pnpm store will be caching a pruned store
The original message made it sound like it checked the store and decided there was nothing to prune, in reality pruning just did not run if run_install was not set.
… and store_prune options
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Adding built-in caching makes pruning in the post action a great idea! So #188 is to prefer over this PR |
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I think both can be combined just fine. |
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So by default we will always run prune after install? But this is a waste unless node_modules is actually cached. |
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True. Would it make sense to merge #188 first, and I can revise this PR to prune by default if you use the new caching, or add option if you use some other caching? |
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Closes #185
Removes the "post" action, since it is hard to benefit from it for caching purposes.
Instead shifts to run
pnpm store prunedirectly after executingrun_install(s), if any.Also added an option to the action,
store_prunewhich can be set tofalseto disable this pruning.Considerations
Something I'm unsure of, is if some use of the
run_installarray/object could be used to install something that would be prunable, meaning that the automatic pruning would then remove what you just installed? But installing globally should not make it prunable, I believe? If there's some expected action of running pruning directly followingrun_install, would it be enough to add to the documentation to explain that you might want tostore_prune: falseif you do anything weird like that? Or it'd be possible to run prune automatically ifrun_installis true, and not if it's some kind of advanced setup (array/objects)