# Dummy Manifests and Metadata
This directory contains dummy manifests and metadata directories.
Those directories may be copied to the bundle directory in distgit in case it does not
contain buildable CSVs. This will allow check-patch to pass so a patch can be merged.

Midstream should not write to the bundle directory. Having said that, we still need to
be able to use the same Dockerfile in Midstream so patches can be merged. This means we
need the bundle directory to include some buildable CSVs for check-patch to pass, but we
cannot have that content stored in the Midstream repo - it has to be generated
downstream and taken from distgit.

Both build and check-patch pipelines will use the bundle directory from distgit
with the content written by render_template's last run. In case such run never happened
or it failed to produce buildable CSVs, use the content of this directory to overwrite
the bundle directory in distgit, so that check-patch is able to build a dummy operator
successfully.
