CI: Download cached remote files in benchmarks.yml (#2923)

Make the benchmark GitHub Actions workflow more reliable
by pre-downloading some cached files.

.github/workflows/benchmarks.yml

@@ -64,6 +64,24 @@ jobs:
  geopandas pytest pytest-benchmark pytest-mpl
  python -m pip install -U pytest-codspeed setuptools
 
+ # Download cached remote files (artifacts) from GitHub
+ - name: Download remote data from GitHub
+ uses: dawidd6/[email protected]
+ with:
+ workflow: cache_data.yaml
+ workflow_conclusion: success
+ name: gmt-cache
+ path: .gmt
+
+ # Move downloaded files to ~/.gmt directory and list them
+ - name: Move and list downloaded remote files
+ run: |
+ mkdir -p ~/.gmt
+ mv .gmt/* ~/.gmt
+ # Change modification times of the two files, so GMT won't refresh it
+ touch ~/.gmt/server/gmt_data_server.txt ~/.gmt/server/gmt_hash_server.txt
+ ls -lhR ~/.gmt
+
  # Install the package that we want to test
  - name: Install the package
  run: make install