From 291af0b0e28942dfe20c59d257b3f9480038fc67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aurelien Gateau <aurelien.gateau@gitguardian.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 11:37:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] chore(cache): do not create cache file until we need it

This is required to be able to skip caching for some commands.
---
 ggshield/config.py | 13 -------------
 1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ggshield/config.py b/ggshield/config.py
index 727e36af32..722189ac7b 100644
--- a/ggshield/config.py
+++ b/ggshield/config.py
@@ -224,18 +224,8 @@ def __setattr__(self, name: str, value: Any) -> None:
         else:
             super().__setattr__(name, value)
 
-    def create_empty_cache(self) -> None:
-        # Creates a new file
-        try:
-            with open(self.CACHE_FILENAME, "w"):
-                pass
-        except PermissionError:
-            # Hotfix: for the time being we skip cache handling if permission denied
-            pass
-
     def load_cache(self) -> bool:
         if not os.path.isfile(self.CACHE_FILENAME):
-            self.create_empty_cache()
             return True
 
         _cache: dict = {}
@@ -286,9 +276,6 @@ def to_dict(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
         return _cache
 
     def save(self) -> bool:
-        if not os.path.isfile(self.CACHE_FILENAME):
-            return False
-
         try:
             f = open(self.CACHE_FILENAME, "w")
         except PermissionError: