Rust Cache Action

A GitHub Action that implements smart caching for rust/cargo projects with sensible defaults.

Example usage

# selecting a toolchain either by action or manual `rustup` calls should happen
# before the plugin, as it uses the current rustc version as its cache key
- uses: actions-rs/toolchain@v1
  with:
    profile: minimal
    toolchain: stable

- uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v1

Inputs

: key

An optional key that is added to the automatic cache key.

working-directory The working directory the action operates in, is case the cargo project is not located in the repo root.

Cache Details

The cache currently caches the following directories:

• ~/.cargo/registry/index
• ~/.cargo/registry/cache
• ~/.cargo/git
• ./target

This cache is automatically keyed by:

• the github job,
• the rustc release / host / hash, and
• a hash of the Cargo.lock / Cargo.toml files.

An additional input key can be provided if the builtin keys are not sufficient.

Before persisting, the cache is cleaned of intermediate artifacts and anything that is not a workspace dependency. In particular, no caching of workspace crates will be done. For this reason, this action will automatically set CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0 to disable incremental compilation.

The action will try to restore from a previous Cargo.lock version as well, so lockfile updates should only re-build changed dependencies.

Additionally, the action automatically works around cargo#8603 / actions/cache#403 which would otherwise corrupt the cache on macOS builds.