mmerge.yml

name: MMERGE
on: workflow_dispatch
jobs:
  job:
    name: job
    runs-on: windows-latest    
    steps:
      - name: checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with: 
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          ref: other
      - name: merge
        shell: bash
        run: |
          git config user.email "actions@zpqrtbnk.net"
          git config user.name "Actions"
          git fetch --depth=1 --no-tags origin master
          git branch master origin/master
          # because we fetched both other and master with depth=1 we have no history
          # and therefore no way to determine whether they are related, so we need to
          # specify --allow-unrelated-histories here AND it is *always* going to
          # create a merge commit since, again, it cannot verify whether the merge
          # already took place
          git merge master --allow-unrelated-histories
      - name: make changes
        shell: bash
        run: |
          echo woop>>woop.txt
      - name: commit and push back
        shell: bash
        run: |
            # we don't want to add another commit on top of the merge, just shoobi it
            git commit --amend -m "wooplala"
            git push