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Why does instruction ordering still matter inside a multi-stage build's builder stage?

Multi-stage builds control what ends up in the final image, but the build cache within any single stage still operates instruction-by-instruction; copying dependency manifests and installing dependencies before copying full source code in the builder stage still lets unrelated source-only changes reuse the cached dependency-install layer.

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