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sneak e3bbca28ad Rewrite the -count=1 note to match the current files (closes #77)
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The note under the canonical Go `make test` example in `prompts/REPO_POLICIES.md` still named the cache-busting build argument that `--no-cache` replaced, and said Go's cache was baked into earlier image layers.

It now says where Go's test result cache can replay a pass: on a developer's machine, where the Makefile target runs, so `-count=1` stays on both invocations. The `test` phase of the `Dockerfile` has nothing to replay: its base image holds no result for the repo's tests and no earlier step runs one.

The first paragraph no longer says the rerun would replay a failure: Go stores only passes.

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# Completed Steps
- 2026-10-04: Rewrote the note under the canonical Go `make test` example in
`REPO_POLICIES.md` (issue 77), which still named the cache-busting build
argument that `--no-cache` replaced. It now says where Go's test result cache
can replay a pass: on a developer's machine, where the Makefile target runs,
and not in the `test` phase of the `Dockerfile`, whose base image and earlier
steps hold no result for the repo's tests.
- 2026-10-04: The Makefile examples in the Go styleguide and the HTTP server
conventions now fall back to `dev` when `git describe` prints nothing (outside
a git checkout, or where git is missing or refuses the checkout), instead of
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```
`-count=1` is required on both invocations: it defeats Go's test _result_
cache, so the target cannot report a pass it did not earn, and the rerun
reproduces a failure instead of replaying it. It leaves the build cache
alone, so it costs the runtime of the suite and no recompilation.
cache, so neither run can report a stored pass in place of running the
tests. It leaves the build cache alone, so it costs the runtime of the suite
and no recompilation.
Note that this is a second, independent cache, stacked below the Docker
layer cache that [issue #26](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/prompts/issues/26)
addresses. `CHECK_EPOCH` guarantees the `RUN make test` _step_ re-executes;
it does not guarantee `go test` inside that step does any work, because the
`GOCACHE` baked into earlier image layers survives into the re-executed
step. They are two separate defects requiring two separate fixes, and a fix
for one must not be recorded as covering the other.
That cache is Go's own, separate from Docker's layer cache. Go stores a
passing result in its cache directory (`GOCACHE`), and when the same tests
run again on unchanged code it prints that result, marked `(cached)`,
without running them. That matters on a developer's machine, where this
target runs and the directory lasts from one run to the next. The `test`
phase of the `Dockerfile` needs no `-count=1`: its base image holds no
result for this repo's tests and nothing before its `go test` step runs a
test, so there is nothing to replay. `--no-cache` (above) is what makes that
step run on an unchanged tree.
Python example: