Clean Build Files dependant on cloud/Github?

ESPHome
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After running an ESPHome update, I typically will go through and clean the build files to reduce backup size. Unfortunately, GitHub apparently went down in the middle of doing this which has caused me to realize that cleaning the build files is apparently dependent upon GitHub being accessible. Is this intended or a bug? I thought build files were just the cached/compiled files used to generate the firmware images?

INFO ESPHome 2024.7.3
INFO Reading configuration /config/esphome/garage.yaml...
INFO Updating https://github.com/ratgdo/esphome-ratgdo@None
Failed config

packages: [source /config/esphome/garage.yaml:5]
  
  unable to access 'https://github.com/ratgdo/esphome-ratgdo/': The requested URL returned error: 500.
  ratgdo.esphome: github://ratgdo/esphome-ratgdo/v2board_esp8266_d1_mini_lite.yaml@main
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Clean build files is supposed to just delete the build files. There should be no need to access remote resources until you actually compile the device again. So I would say bug.

https://esphome.io/guides/getting_started_hassio.html#dashboard-interface
Screenshot 2024-08-15 at 09-54-46 Getting Started with ESPHome and Home Assistant — ESPHome

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Thanks Tom. I’ll get a big report filed later, once GitHub is back up.

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Should be up now. Good luck. I never have any luck with ESPHome Issue reports. It’s like they don’t even look at them and hope they will go stale. Unless 100s of people are complaining.

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Well, I’ve filed an issue. We’ll see if it goes anywhere.

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