Another quick question on cache, as of now, what is the best way to "clean" the cache? I guess there is no tool to manage cache at the moment.

You generally shouldn't need to, since the cache keys are very strict. If you're trying to force-rerun a successful test you can use

./pants test --force

. Or you can run with

./pants --no-local-cache

to turn off the cache for the run. Or if you really want to nuke the cache, it's under

~/.cache/pants

by default (there are a few different caches there).

You generally shouldn’t need to

I don’t think this is really true, over time it’ll add up — to a lot, as iirc not all caches are gc’ed.

Yep agree with @curved-television-6568. Depends on the size, the cache location will eventually blow up. So I am wondering what actions I can take besides just delete the whole cache.

Yeah I have seen caches as big as 60 GBs locally. Although this could also have been because I had multiple pants versions locally.

Oh I see, for that reason. Yes, nuke ~/.cache/pants