{"thread":{"id":"66344","subject":"[offtopic] GitHub CI webpage caching is horrible...","startedAt":"2026-09-18T05:20:54Z","lastAt":"2026-09-22T08:28:37Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Junio C Hamano","Kaartic Sivaraam"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"552848","messageId":"xmqqo6dvp230.fsf@gitster.g","threadId":"66344","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[offtopic] GitHub CI webpage caching is horrible...","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2026-09-18T05:20:51Z","receivedAt":"2026-09-18T05:20:54Z","isPatch":false,"body":"I usually keep the URL\n\n  https://github.com/git/git/actions/workflows/main.yml?query=event%3Apush+actor%3Agitster\n\nopen in one of my browser tabs, but this request interacts badly\nwith the web cache they use.  Depending on the phase of the moon, I\nget a stale cached page whose latest entry is from early August!\n\nAs a workaround, I could append '&nonce=$random_number' to the end\nof the URL, but I should not have to do that.\n\nGrumble...\n"},{"id":"552973","messageId":"7da4b657-b6f3-4ee9-a49a-459b77088f55@gmail.com","threadId":"66344","inReplyTo":"xmqqo6dvp230.fsf@gitster.g","subject":"Re: [offtopic] GitHub CI webpage caching is horrible...","fromName":"Kaartic Sivaraam","fromEmail":"kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com","sentAt":"2026-09-22T08:28:29Z","receivedAt":"2026-09-22T08:28:37Z","isPatch":false,"body":"On 9/18/26 10:50, Junio C Hamano wrote:\n> I usually keep the URL\n> \n>    https://github.com/git/git/actions/workflows/main.yml?query=event%3Apush+actor%3Agitster\n> \n> open in one of my browser tabs, but this request interacts badly\n> with the web cache they use.  Depending on the phase of the moon, I\n> get a stale cached page whose latest entry is from early August!\n> \n> As a workaround, I could append '&nonce=$random_number' to the end\n> of the URL, but I should not have to do that.\n> \n\nIt might be worth putting a word here: \nhttps://help.github.com/support/contact\n\nWith Taylor moving on from GitHub, I'm not quite sure who if this would \nrelayed to GitHub by someone. So, the GitHub support page is a better \nplace to complain so that they'll hopefully fix it some day :-)\n\n-- \nSivaraam\n\n"}]}