ci: pin Dependabot commit message prefix - #260
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Without an explicit commit-message block, Dependabot infers the prefix from recent commit history, so it dropped chore(deps) once a few unprefixed bumps landed. Setting prefix, prefix-development, and include: scope on every ecosystem keeps PR titles consistent.
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Follow-up to #260. That change pinned `prefix: chore` with `include: "scope"`, but the recreated group PRs (#261, #262) came back as `chore: Bump the nlog group with 2 updates` — the `(deps)` scope was never added. `include: "scope"` derives the scope from dependency-type resolution, which produces nothing for these ecosystems. Spelling the scope directly into `prefix` and `prefix-development` makes the title deterministic: ``` chore(deps): Bump the nlog group with 2 updates ``` `include` is dropped, since keeping it alongside a prefix that already carries a scope risks emitting it twice.
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Dependabot PR titles drifted off the
chore(deps):convention — #249, #253, #254, and #255 landed as bareBump .....github/dependabot.ymlhad nocommit-messageblock, so Dependabot inferred the prefix from recent commit history. That inference is unstable: once a few unprefixed bumps land, it stops prefixing, and the drift reinforces itself.Each ecosystem now pins
prefix: chore,prefix-development: chore, andinclude: scope, producingchore(deps): Bump ....Neither the NuGet nor the github-actions ecosystem classifies development dependencies, so
prefix-developmentis inert today — it is set so a future ecosystem that does classify them stays consistent.