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The output of building and testing your code often produces files you can use to debug test failures and production code that you can deploy. For more information about using GitHub Actions to perform CI, see " About continuous integration." You can create a continuous integration (CI) workflow to build and test your code. Use artifacts when you want to save files produced by a job to view after a workflow run has ended, such as built binaries or build logs.įor more information on dependency caching, see " Caching dependencies to speed up workflows." Uploading build and test artifacts.Use caching when you want to reuse files that don't change often between jobs or workflow runs, such as build dependencies from a package management system.For more information about inputs and outputs, see " Metadata syntax for GitHub Actions." Comparing artifacts and dependency cachingĪrtifacts and caching are similar because they provide the ability to store files on GitHub, but each feature offers different use cases and cannot be used interchangeably. To pass data between steps in a job, you can use inputs and outputs. The steps of a job share the same environment on the runner machine, but run in their own individual processes.
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#DEFINE ARTIFACT DOWNLOAD#
When you download a file, you can reference it by name. Downloading files: You can only download artifacts that were uploaded during the same workflow run.Uploading files: Give the uploaded file a name and upload the data before the job ends.For more information, see the actions/upload-artifact and download-artifact actions. GitHub provides two actions that you can use to upload and download build artifacts.
#DEFINE ARTIFACT ZIP#
This means that billing is calculated based on the size of the uploaded artifact and not the size of the zip file. When an artifact is downloaded using the GitHub UI, all files that were individually uploaded as part of the artifact get zipped together into a single file. For more information, see " Managing billing for GitHub Actions."Īrtifacts are uploaded during a workflow run, and you can view an artifact's name and size in the UI. Any usage beyond the included amounts is controlled by spending limits. For private repositories, each GitHub account receives a certain amount of free minutes and storage for use with GitHub-hosted runners, depending on the product used with the account. GitHub Actions usage is free for standard GitHub-hosted runners in public repositories, and for self-hosted runners.
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Storing artifacts uses storage space on GitHub. Stress test performance output and code coverage results.
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