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Self-mutation commit makes running workflows silently no-op

See original GitHub issue

On this PR: https://github.com/cdklabs/cdk-ops/pull/1815

GitHub Actions “build” started running, it was going to do a “cdk diff” that I want to see
For whatever reason, some GitHub workflow that Projen creates decided it wanted to add a chore: self mutation commit
The addition of this commit canceled the running “build” workflow: https://github.com/cdklabs/cdk-ops/runs/4286695636?check_suite_focus=true
Because they don’t want to hit an infinite loop, GitHub Actions pushes never trigger workflows. Since the latest commit was added by GitHub Actions, the new “build” workflow that was supposed to replace the old one silently no-ops: https://github.com/cdklabs/cdk-ops/pull/1815/checks?check_run_id=4286717896

The end result is:

“build” didn’t run (so I never get to see the result of my “cdk diff”)
What’s worse: the UI makes it look like the workflow ran successfully. So if it was doing something like running unit tests, potential failures would not be caught and I might accidentally merge a broken PR.

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Created 2 years ago
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eladbcommented, Nov 22, 2021

Definitely a good idea

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github-actions[bot]commented, Jan 30, 2022

Closing this issue as it hasn’t seen activity for a while. Please add a comment @mentioning a maintainer to reopen. If you wish to exclude this issue from being marked as stale, add the “backlog” label.

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