Recap: Weekend Out Exercise

2.5. Recap: Weekend Out Exercise#

What Actually Happened?

Think back to the exercise where multiple people (you, Alice, Bob, and Carol) were collaborating on a packing list. Some unexpected things happened automatically - let’s understand why!

Key Questions
  • What exactly was going on in the Weekend-Out repository?

  • How did a merge conflict occur automatically?

  • What triggered the workflows?

  • Who (or what) made commits as “Carol[bot]” and “Alice[bot]”?

  • Why did two drone lists end up in the main branch?

Hint

Take another look at the .github/workflows/ directory in the Weekend-Out repository.

Three workflow files were silently working in the background:

  • auto-commit-blanket.yml

  • carols_drone_and_alice.yml

  • carols_issue.yml