[MINOR] Prefix Dependabot pull request titles with [MINOR] - #925
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Dependabot names its pull requests "Bump <dependency> from <a> to <b>". That title matches none of the three formats the PR Title Validation workflow accepts, so every Dependabot pull request fails the check and a committer has to rename it by hand. PR apache#879 and PR apache#924 were both renamed this way. Set commit-message.prefix so Dependabot writes the prefix itself. The trailing space in the prefix value is deliberate. Dependabot appends a colon to any prefix that ends with an alphanumeric character or a closing bracket, so "[MINOR]" would yield "[MINOR]: Bump ..." and fail the check again. A prefix that already ends with a space is used verbatim.
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Dependabot names its pull requests
Bump <dependency> from <a> to <b>. That title matches none of the three formats.github/workflows/pr_title_validation.ymlaccepts, namely[<issue-number>] <description>,[MINOR] <description>, or a Conventional Commits prefix. Every Dependabot pull request therefore fails thevalidate-pr-titlecheck, and a committer has to rename it by hand. #879 and #924 were both renamed this way.This pull request sets
commit-message.prefixso Dependabot writes the prefix itself.Brief change log
commit-message.prefix: "[MINOR] "to thegithub-actionsentry in.github/dependabot.yml.The trailing space in the prefix value is deliberate, and a comment in the file records why. Dependabot appends a colon to any prefix that ends with an alphanumeric character or a closing bracket, so
"[MINOR]"would produce[MINOR]: Bump ...and fail the check again. A prefix that already ends with a space is used verbatim. Seetitle_builder.rbin dependabot-core.Verify this pull request
This pull request is a trivial rework / code cleanup without any test coverage.
The behaviour was verified in two parts, because Dependabot only regenerates titles on its next scheduled run.
[MINOR] Bump <dependency> from <a> to <b>. The prefix comes fromTitleBuilder#build, which returns"#{prefix}#{name}", and the YAML value parses as'[MINOR] 'with the space preserved.bashregexes frompr_title_validation.ymlagainst candidate titles gives:[MINOR] Bump actions/setup-java from 5 to 6matches^\[MINOR\]\ .+[MINOR] bump actions/setup-java from 5 to 6matches, so the check is insensitive to how Dependabot capitalises the first word[MINOR]: Bump actions/setup-java from 5 to 6does not match, which is the case the trailing space avoids