CacheBeta task: .git folder is not cached?

[lukka]

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Type: Bug

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Environment

• Server - Azure Pipelines

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Issue Description

CacheBeta does not save in the cache the ".git" folder.

Task logs

Logs are not useful, they never mentions about excluding .git folder.

The task CacheBeta is like this:
steps:

• task: CacheBeta@0
  displayName: CacheBeta
  inputs:
  key: '$(packages)linux'
  path: '$(Build.BinariesDirectory)/vcpkg'

and the directory /../vcpkg/ when is restored does not contain the .git directory. Verified with listing dirs that the .git dir is there when cache is missed and created thereafter. But when i hit the cache (and i skip cloning the repo and all its build artifact created in the previous build), the cacheBeta tasks does not restore the .git folder.

[johnterickson]

You should be able to override this behavior via https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/reference/artifactignore?view=azure-devops#ignored-by-default

@willsmythe what's your take on what the behavior should be?

[johnterickson]

@fadnavistanmay How does #10925 play in here?

[fadnavistanmay]

Hi @lukka - If you are using the agent 2.160.0 - you will see the .git folder cached. Thanks,