Add cache-provider: external to skip Gradle User Home caching (#1059)

Users relying on an external mechanism to save/restore Gradle User Home
(e.g. Develocity Artifact Cache) previously had to set cache-disabled:
true, which is confusing since caching isn't actually disabled — it's
just not managed by this action — and the Job Summary misleadingly
reported caching as "Disabled".

cache-provider: external skips Gradle User Home restore/save (same as
cache-disabled) but reports a distinct "External" status in the Job
Summary, explaining that caching is handled by another provider.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
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Daz DeBoer
2026-08-25 09:44:41 -06:00
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co-authored by Claude Sonnet 5
parent 4ca152ae04
commit 910b061d4d
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@@ -132,6 +132,23 @@ jobs:
working-directory: .github/workflow-samples/kotlin-dsl
run: ./gradlew assemble
cache-provider-external:
needs: build-distribution
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout sources
uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
- name: Initialize integ-test
uses: ./.github/actions/init-integ-test
- name: Setup Gradle
uses: ./setup-gradle
with:
cache-provider: external
- name: Build kotlin-dsl project
working-directory: .github/workflow-samples/kotlin-dsl
run: ./gradlew assemble
basic-caching:
needs: build-distribution
runs-on: ubuntu-latest