chore: Adjustments to CI caching (#5495)

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -48,15 +48,15 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
 
     steps:
+    - name: Checkout code
+      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
     - name: Install Go
       uses: actions/setup-go@v4
       with:
         go-version: ${{ matrix.GO_SEMVER }}
         check-latest: true
 
-    - name: Checkout code
-      uses: actions/checkout@v3
-
     # These tools would be useful if we later decide to reinvestigate
     # publishing test/coverage reports to some tool for easier consumption
     # - name: Install test and coverage analysis tools
@@ -79,23 +79,6 @@ jobs:
         # Calculate the short SHA1 hash of the git commit
         echo "short_sha=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
 
-    - name: Cache the build cache
-      uses: actions/cache@v3
-      with:
-        # In order:
-        # * Module download cache
-        # * Build cache (Linux)
-        # * Build cache (Mac)
-        # * Build cache (Windows)
-        path: |
-          ~/go/pkg/mod
-          ~/.cache/go-build
-          ~/Library/Caches/go-build
-          ~\AppData\Local\go-build
-        key: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.go }}-go-ci-${{ hashFiles('**/go.sum') }}
-        restore-keys: |
-          ${{ runner.os }}-${{ matrix.go }}-go-ci
-
     - name: Get dependencies
       run: |
         go get -v -t -d ./...
@@ -146,7 +129,7 @@ jobs:
     if: github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name == github.repository && github.actor != 'dependabot[bot]'
     continue-on-error: true  # August 2020: s390x VM is down due to weather and power issues
     steps:
-      - name: Checkout code into the Go module directory
+      - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - name: Run Tests
         run: |
@@ -172,7 +155,7 @@ jobs:
   goreleaser-check:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - name: checkout
+      - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
       
       - uses: goreleaser/goreleaser-action@v4

.github/workflows/cross-build.yml

@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     continue-on-error: true
     steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
       - name: Install Go
         uses: actions/setup-go@v4
         with:
@@ -43,22 +46,6 @@ jobs:
           printf "\n\nSystem environment:\n\n"
           env
 
-      - name: Cache the build cache
-        uses: actions/cache@v3
-        with:
-          # In order:
-          # * Module download cache
-          # * Build cache (Linux)
-          path: |
-            ~/go/pkg/mod
-            ~/.cache/go-build
-          key: cross-build-go${{ matrix.go }}-${{ matrix.goos }}-${{ hashFiles('**/go.sum') }}
-          restore-keys: |
-            cross-build-go${{ matrix.go }}-${{ matrix.goos }}
-
-      - name: Checkout code into the Go module directory
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
-
       - name: Run Build
         env:
           CGO_ENABLED: 0

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -29,17 +29,17 @@ jobs:
       contents: write
 
     steps:
+    - name: Checkout code
+      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      with:
+        fetch-depth: 0
+
     - name: Install Go
       uses: actions/setup-go@v4
       with:
         go-version: ${{ matrix.GO_SEMVER }}
         check-latest: true
 
-    - name: Checkout code
-      uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      with:
-        fetch-depth: 0
-
     # Force fetch upstream tags -- because 65 minutes
     # tl;dr: actions/checkout@v3 runs this line:
     #   git -c protocol.version=2 fetch --no-tags --prune --progress --no-recurse-submodules --depth=1 origin +ebc278ec98bb24f2852b61fde2a9bf2e3d83818b:refs/tags/
@@ -94,18 +94,6 @@ jobs:
         # tags are only accepted if signed by Matt's key
         git verify-tag "${{ steps.vars.outputs.version_tag }}" || exit 1
 
-    - name: Cache the build cache
-      uses: actions/cache@v3
-      with:
-        # In order:
-        # * Module download cache
-        # * Build cache (Linux)
-        path: |
-          ~/go/pkg/mod
-          ~/.cache/go-build
-        key: ${{ runner.os }}-go${{ matrix.go }}-release-${{ hashFiles('**/go.sum') }}
-        restore-keys: |
-          ${{ runner.os }}-go${{ matrix.go }}-release
     - name: Install Cosign
       uses: sigstore/cosign-installer@main
     - name: Cosign version