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AI-generatedCache key exact match may restore stale data despite dependency changes
Cache key exact match may restore stale data despite dependency changes Goal: Understand whether CircleCI provides any built‑in safeguard that prevents the reuse of a cache when the restore_key matches exactly but the underlying dependencies have changed in ways not captured by the checksum (e.g., submodule updates or generated files). Constraints: The cache
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