remove remnants of the disk-based redirects cache file (#31445)

.gitignore

@@ -19,10 +19,9 @@ coverage/
 blc_output.log
 blc_output_internal.log
 broken_links.md
-lib/redirects/.redirects-cache.json
 # This one is purely for historical reasons because so many people might
-# still have thes files on their disk.
-lib/redirects/.redirects-cache_*.json
+# still have these files on their disk.
+lib/redirects/.redirects-cache*.json
 
 # During the preview deploy untrusted user code may be cloned into this directory
 # We ignore it from git to keep things deterministic

lib/redirects/static/redirect-exceptions.txt

@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
-# Redirects are cached in 'lib/redirects/.redirects-cache.json'. If changes made here are not being reflected
-# on your local server, delete the cache file by running the following command, then restart your server.
-#
-#   rm lib/redirects/.redirects-cache.json
-
 # These urls are exceptions to the versionless redirect fallbacks (described in lib/all-versions.js).
 # See the comment in lib/redirects/precompile.js for an explanation of these exceptions.
 # Originally shipped in pull #20947 on 10/15/21

script/move-content.js

@@ -155,18 +155,6 @@ async function main(opts, nameTuple) {
       )
     }
   }
-
-  const redirectsCachingFile = 'lib/redirects/.redirects-cache.json'
-  if (fs.existsSync(redirectsCachingFile)) {
-    fs.unlinkSync(redirectsCachingFile)
-    if (verbose) {
-      console.log(
-        chalk.yellow(
-          `Deleted the redirects caching file ${redirectsCachingFile} to stale cache in local server testing.`
-        )
-      )
-    }
-  }
 }
 
 function validateFileInputs(oldPath, newPath, isFolder) {

tests/fixtures/versionless-redirects.txt

@@ -1,8 +1,3 @@
-# Redirects are cached in 'lib/redirects/.redirects-cache.json'. If changes made here are not being reflected
-# on your local server, delete the cache file by running the following command, then restart your server.
-#
-#   rm lib/redirects/.redirects-cache.json
-
 # These urls went from being free-pro-team, but are now versioned for more than one enterprise version and enterprise-cloud
 # Shipped in pull #20947 on 10/15/21