# Best Practice for CI with Run Cache?

**URL:** <https://discuss.dvc.org/t/best-practice-for-ci-with-run-cache/427>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [July 6, 2020, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/best-practice-for-ci-with-run-cache/427 "2020-07-06T09:54:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![rabefabi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@rabefabi](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/rabefabi)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/best-practice-for-ci-with-run-cache/427/1 "2020-07-06T09:54:51Z")

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I’m having trouble understanding how to use the new [run cache](https://dvc.org/blog/dvc-1-0-release#run-cache) in a continuous integration context.

From what I gathered it’s supposed to work as follows:

- `git commit` & `git push` some changes to my code
- The CI-Pipeline is started, it executes a `dvc repro` and trains the new model
- After model training, the CI-Pipeline executes a `dvc push --run-cache`
  - The newly trained model, and all other outputs tracked by dvc are pushed to the dvc remote

- On my local machine, I execute `dvc pull --run-cache` (without any changes to my local `dvc.lock` file)
  - I’m expecting the newly trained model and all other dvc outputs to appear in my working directory?

But instead of the files from the run cache appearing in my working dir, I still get the outputs corresponding to my (old, local) `dvc.lock` file.

Am I missing something here, or am I using the commands wrong?  
In case my expectations are correct I can try to provide a minimal example or more debug information for my current setup.

When I manually copy the (new) `dvc.lock` from the runner and paste it into my local machine, I’m able to `dvc pull` from the dvc remote and get the expected outputs.  
But from what I understood, it shouldn’t be necessary anmyore to `git add dvc.lock && git commit` from inside the runner for every experiment?

Thanks in advance,  
Rabefabi

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**Author:** ![skshetry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@skshetry](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/skshetry)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/best-practice-for-ci-with-run-cache/427/2 "2020-07-06T10:19:24Z")

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@rabefabi, right now, you have to run `dvc repro` to change the lock-file and checkout from run-cache. But, before that, try running `dvc status` to see if anything’s changed.