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In CI, cypress install should clear old cached versions

See original GitHub issue

Proposal: Prevents large buildup of ~/.cache with obsolete versions. Should only happen in CI because locally users could have multiple versions installed on the system in other projects.

complications:

different cypress versions across branches, can’t clear out other versions…

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Created 5 years ago
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Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)

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jennifer-shehanecommented, Oct 29, 2020

This is now possible with cypress cache prune. Closing as resolved.

If you’re experiencing a bug similar to this in Cypress, please open a new issue with a fully reproducible example that we can run. There may be a specific edge case with the issue that we need more detail to fix.

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zeptonautcommented, Jul 17, 2020

Yep, I could definitely see that being useful too!

Given that cypress version already knows the version (it looks like through util.pkgVersion()), creating a loop to iterate through all other versions in the cache directory and delete them doesn’t seem too farfetched.

My vote is to add a command along the lines of cypress cache clear stale that clears all versions except for the one returned by cypress --version.

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