gitlab 8.2.1, How to use cache in .gitlab-ci.yml

Question

I'm trying to use 'cache' in .gitlab-ci.yml (http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/ci/yaml/README.html#cache). My gitlab version is 8.2.1 and my Runner is:

$ docker exec -it gitlab-runner gitlab-runner -v 
gitlab-runner version 0.7.2 (998cf5d)

So according to the doc, everything is up to date, but I'm unable to use the cache ;-(. All my files are always deleted. Am I doing something wrong?

A cache archive is created, but not passed to the next jobs.

Here is my .gitlab-ci.yml

$ cat .gitlab-ci.yml
    stages:
    - createcache
    - testcache

    createcache:
      type: createcache
      cache:
        untracked: true
        paths:
          - doc/
      script:
        - touch doc/cache.txt

    testcache:
      type: testcache
      cache:
        untracked: true
        paths:
          - doc/
      script:
        - find .
        - ls doc/cache.txt

Output of the job 'createcache'

Running on runner-141d90d4-project-2-concurrent-0 via 849d416b5994...
Fetching changes...
HEAD is now at 2ffbadb MUST BE REVERTED
[...]
$ touch doc/cache.txt
[...]
Archiving cache...
INFO[0000] Creating archive cache.tgz ...              
INFO[0000] Done!                                        

Build succeeded.

Output of the job 'testcache'

Running on runner-141d90d4-project-2-concurrent-0 via 849d416b5994...
Fetching changes...
Removing doc/cache.txt
[...]
$ ls doc/cache.txt
ls: cannot access doc/cache.txt: No such file or directory

ERROR: Build failed with: exit code 1

My workaround

My workaround is to manually untar what's in the /cache directory ... I'm pretty sure that's not the correct way to use cache ...

$ cat .gitlab-ci.yml
    stages:
    - build
    - test
    - deploy

    image: ubuntu:latest

    before_script:
      - export CACHE_FILE=`echo ${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/createcache/${CI_BUILD_REF_NAME}/cache.tgz | sed -e "s|/builds|/cache|"`

    createcache:
      type: build
      cache:
        untracked: true
        paths:
          - doc/
      script:
        - find . | grep -v ".git"
        - mkdir -p doc
        - touch doc/cache.txt

    testcache:
      type: test
      script:
        - env
        - find . | grep -v ".git"
        - tar xvzf ${CACHE_FILE}
        - ls doc/cache.txt

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