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Doesn't GitHub cache fetched images? Any tricks required to get GitHub to refresh the image?

For most use cases, like for CI badges, setting cache-control and etag headers will suffice, but GitHub still caches it (just for a shorter time? I don't know the specifics). Luckily, you can request that they purge their cache for a specific file [0] so I've got a goroutine that calls it once per second [1]

[0] https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/a...

[1] https://github.com/veggiedefender/typing/blob/0ed7c9c17970d6...

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