Handle Misconfigured Dependabot for PNPM Workspaces #11487
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What are you trying to accomplish?
This PR ensures Dependabot correctly detects and prevents updates from inside PNPM workspace subdirectories when a workspace root update is already configured.
Why?
pnpm-workspace.yaml
andpnpm-lock.yaml
exist.MisconfiguredTooling
error when:pnpm-workspace.yaml
exists in a parent directory (../pnpm-workspace.yaml
)pnpm-lock.yaml
exists in a parent directory (../pnpm-lock.yaml
)What issues does this affect or fix?
This resolves incorrect Dependabot behavior where updates are attempted from workspace subdirectories instead of the root, causing no change errors.
Anything you want to highlight for special attention from reviewers?
pnpm-workspace.yaml
andpnpm-lock.yaml
are in a parent directory trigger an error./some-project
instead of/
) will not raise errors.pnpm-workspace.yaml
orpnpm-lock.yaml
is found in the parent directory, the update proceeds normally.✅ Proper Configuration:
If you are using PNPM workspaces, you should only define the root directory (
/
) independabot.yml
. Dependabot will automatically update dependencies across all workspaces from there.❌ Misconfigured Dependabot:
If you define subdirectories (
/client
,/server
, etc.) separately, Dependabot may attempt to run updates inside a workspace subdirectory, which is not supported and will trigger an error.How will you know you've accomplished your goal?
MisconfiguredTooling
when bothpnpm-workspace.yaml
andpnpm-lock.yaml
are in a parent directory.Checklist