Add cache-save: false option

__tests__/cache-save.test.ts

@@ -256,6 +256,19 @@ describe('run', () => {
       expect(saveCacheSpy).toHaveBeenCalled();
       expect(setFailedSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
     });
+
+    it('should not save the cache when requested not to', async () => {
+      inputs['cache'] = 'pip';
+      inputs['cache-save'] = false;
+      inputs['python-version'] = '3.10.0';
+      await run();
+      expect(getInputSpy).toHaveBeenCalled();
+      expect(infoSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+        'Not saving cache since `cache-save` is false'
+      );
+      expect(saveCacheSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+      expect(setFailedSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    });
   });
 
   afterEach(() => {

action.yml

@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ inputs:
     default: ${{ github.server_url == 'https://github.com' && github.token || '' }}
   cache-dependency-path:
     description: "Used to specify the path to dependency files. Supports wildcards or a list of file names for caching multiple dependencies."
+  cache-save:
+    description: "Set this option if you want the action to save the cache after the run. Defaults to true. It can be useful to set this to false if you have e.g. optional dependencies that only some workflows require, and they should not be cached."
+    default: true
   update-environment:
     description: "Set this option if you want the action to update environment variables."
     default: true

dist/cache-save/index.js

@@ -59246,7 +59246,12 @@ function run() {
         try {
             const cache = core.getInput('cache');
             if (cache) {
-                yield saveCache(cache);
+                if (core.getBooleanInput('cache-save')) {
+                    yield saveCache(cache);
+                }
+                else {
+                    core.info('Not saving cache since `cache-save` is false');
+                }
             }
         }
         catch (error) {

docs/advanced-usage.md

@@ -380,6 +380,42 @@ steps:
   # Or pip install -e '.[test]' to install test dependencies
 ```
 
+### Skipping cache saving
+
+For some scenarios, it may be useful to only save a given subset of dependencies,
+but restore more of them for other workflows. For instance, there may be a heavy
+`extras` dependency that you do not need your entire test matrix to download, but
+you want to download and test it separately without it being saved in the cache
+archive for all runs.
+
+To achieve this, you can use `cache-save: false` on the run that uses the heavy
+dependency.
+
+
+```yaml
+test:
+  steps:
+  - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+  - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+    with:
+      python-version: '3.11'
+      cache: 'pip'
+      cache-dependency-path: pyproject.toml
+  - run: pip install -e .
+
+test-heavy-extra:
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+        python-version: '3.11'
+        cache: 'pip'
+        cache-dependency-path: pyproject.toml
+        cache-save: false
+    - run: pip install -e '.[heavy-extra]'
+```
+
+
 # Outputs and environment variables
 
 ## Outputs

src/cache-save.ts

@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ export async function run() {
   try {
     const cache = core.getInput('cache');
     if (cache) {
-      await saveCache(cache);
+      if (core.getBooleanInput('cache-save')) {
+        await saveCache(cache);
+      } else {
+        core.info('Not saving cache since `cache-save` is false');
+      }
     }
   } catch (error) {
     const err = error as Error;