From c6ca020281423816fe7257c3aaa5a3bc06590413 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2026 17:04:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ci: implement gitea's cache-seeder (#1350)

Like Gitea's CI, only a `cache-seeder` workflow on main saves the go caches, all other jobs only restore them. Caches are scoped per repository, so until now any pull request, forks included, could write a cache that other runs restore. The seeder compiles the tests without running them, so no test result is ever cached.

Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1350
Reviewed-by: Lunny Xiao <xiaolunwen@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
---
 .gitea/actions/go-setup/action.yml | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 .gitea/workflows/cache-seeder.yml  | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 .gitea/workflows/test.yml          | 10 ++--------
 3 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 .gitea/actions/go-setup/action.yml
 create mode 100644 .gitea/workflows/cache-seeder.yml

diff --git a/.gitea/actions/go-setup/action.yml b/.gitea/actions/go-setup/action.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..78fc503e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitea/actions/go-setup/action.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+name: go-setup
+description: Set up go and restore its caches, which only the cache-seeder workflow saves
+
+runs:
+  using: composite
+  steps:
+    - uses: actions/setup-go@b7ad1dad31e06c5925ef5d2fc7ad053ef454303e # v7
+      id: setup-go
+      with:
+        go-version-file: go.mod
+        check-latest: true
+        cache: false
+    - if: ${{ github.workflow == 'cache-seeder' }}
+      uses: actions/cache@55cc8345863c7cc4c66a329aec7e433d2d1c52a9 # v6.1.0
+      with:
+        path: |
+          ~/go/pkg/mod
+          ~/.cache/go-build
+          ~/.cache/golangci-lint
+        key: go-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ steps.setup-go.outputs.go-version }}-${{ hashFiles('go.mod', 'go.sum', '.golangci.yml', 'Makefile', '.gitea/actions/go-setup/action.yml', '.gitea/workflows/cache-seeder.yml') }}
+    - if: ${{ github.workflow != 'cache-seeder' }}
+      uses: actions/cache/restore@55cc8345863c7cc4c66a329aec7e433d2d1c52a9 # v6.1.0
+      with:
+        path: |
+          ~/go/pkg/mod
+          ~/.cache/go-build
+          ~/.cache/golangci-lint
+        key: go-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ steps.setup-go.outputs.go-version }}-${{ hashFiles('go.mod', 'go.sum', '.golangci.yml', 'Makefile', '.gitea/actions/go-setup/action.yml', '.gitea/workflows/cache-seeder.yml') }}
+        restore-keys: go-${{ runner.os }}-${{ runner.arch }}-${{ steps.setup-go.outputs.go-version }}-
diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/cache-seeder.yml b/.gitea/workflows/cache-seeder.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0d47a444
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/cache-seeder.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+name: cache-seeder
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+    paths:
+      - go.mod
+      - go.sum
+      - .golangci.yml
+      - Makefile
+      - .gitea/actions/go-setup/action.yml
+      - .gitea/workflows/cache-seeder.yml
+
+jobs:
+  seed:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7
+      - uses: ./.gitea/actions/go-setup
+      - run: make deps-tools lint build
+      - name: compile the test binaries without running them
+        run: |
+          make test GOTEST_FLAGS='-race -exec true'
+          go test -tags e2e -exec true ./e2e/...
diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/test.yml b/.gitea/workflows/test.yml
index 7d833e0c..61184e93 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/test.yml
@@ -17,10 +17,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7
-      - uses: actions/setup-go@b7ad1dad31e06c5925ef5d2fc7ad053ef454303e # v7
-        with:
-          go-version-file: 'go.mod'
-          check-latest: true
+      - uses: ./.gitea/actions/go-setup
       - name: prepare anonymous docker config
         run: mkdir -p "$DOCKER_CONFIG" && echo '{}' > "$DOCKER_CONFIG/config.json"
       # Pre-pull act/runner's two largest base images so a slow pull can't dominate `make test`;
@@ -68,10 +65,7 @@ jobs:
           - gitea/gitea:main-nightly
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7
-      - uses: actions/setup-go@b7ad1dad31e06c5925ef5d2fc7ad053ef454303e # v7
-        with:
-          go-version-file: 'go.mod'
-          check-latest: true
+      - uses: ./.gitea/actions/go-setup
       - name: prepare anonymous docker config
         run: mkdir -p "$DOCKER_CONFIG" && echo '{}' > "$DOCKER_CONFIG/config.json"
       - name: e2e compatibility