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What is the dependabot.yml configuration file?
dependabot.yml is the YAML configuration file that controls Dependabot's version update
behavior for a repository — declaring which package ecosystems to monitor, how often to check for
updates, and various customization options (target branch, PR limits, ignored dependencies, and more).
version: 2 updates: - package-ecosystem: "npm" directory: "/" schedule: interval: "weekly" open-pull-requests-limit: 5
Every configuration starts with version: 2 (the current schema version) and an
updates list, where each entry represents one package ecosystem/directory combination to monitor
— a repository with both a Node.js frontend and a Python backend, for instance, would typically have two
separate entries under updates, one per ecosystem.
What does the dependabot.yml file primarily control?
What does each entry under `updates` typically represent?
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