Version 3.3.2 fails to save cache on self-hosted windows runner about cache

[jswanso]

Providing an update here.

I was able to resolve the issue by installing gzip on the Windows runner. Even though git was installed on the runner with a gzip tool, it seems the gzip wasn't able to be found. Interesting though it seems that the tar command under git was being used for this action.

The Windows runner we use had the chocolatey software tool installed on it, so I just used chocolatey to install gzip with the following command.

choco install gzip

The Windows runner also didn't have zstd tool on it, but I think it can work without it. In the end, I ended up installing that tool also using chocolatey.

choco install zstandard

The zstd provides some additional saving on space as it compresses the file more.

I wish the action documentation provided these details on setup for windows self hosted runners so I wouldn't have to figure this all out through trial and error.

[andymcblane]

Thanks for the detailed write up. We hit the same issue with gzip not being available.