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Re: [offtopic] GitHub CI webpage caching is horrible...

From
Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 22, 2026, 08:28 UTC
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<7da4b657-b6f3-4ee9-a49a-459b77088f55@gmail.com>
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On 9/18/26 10:50, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> I usually keep the URL
> 
>    https://github.com/git/git/actions/workflows/main.yml?query=event%3Apush+actor%3Agitster
> 
> open in one of my browser tabs, but this request interacts badly
> with the web cache they use.  Depending on the phase of the moon, I
> get a stale cached page whose latest entry is from early August!
> 
> As a workaround, I could append '&nonce=$random_number' to the end
> of the URL, but I should not have to do that.
>

It might be worth putting a word here: https://help.github.com/support/contact

With Taylor moving on from GitHub, I'm not quite sure who if this would relayed to GitHub by someone. So, the GitHub support page is a better place to complain so that they'll hopefully fix it some day :-)

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Sivaraam
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