All pull requests have 'across 1 directory' in the title since today

[mvz]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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dependabot.yml content

For example, https://github.com/Docbldr/docbldr-use-demo/blob/2502f361346f5b7394fb8cb1804e58c32d422439/.github/dependabot.yml

Updated dependency

selenium-webdriver from 4.19.0 to 4.20.1, and many other cases in all of our repositories

What you expected to see, versus what you actually saw

I expected to see a pull request title 'Bump selenium-webdriver from 4.19.0 to 4.20.1 in the development-dependencies group'.

Instead the pull request title is 'Bump selenium-webdriver from 4.19.0 to 4.20.1 in the development-dependencies group across 1 directory'. (See https://github.com/Docbldr/docbldr-use-demo/pull/3029).

Since there is only one directory with dependency information, this extra text is superfluous.

The same issue happens in all of the pull requests created by dependabot since today.

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[abdulapopoola]

Hi @mvz , that is because we shipped multi-dir support. We can look at improving this, tagging @carlincherry

[corneliusroemer]

I opened a duplicate before discovering this issue. While multi-dir support might be nice, it's important to special case the single-dir case for PR titles as this will likely remain the most common use case.

In a normal repo with multiple groups configured, the current change makes things much less user friendly.

I'm repeating my PR content as it might be easier to understand the issue at first glance than in OP's summary:

It appears that around 18 hours ago (2024-04-29 20:00 UTC) grouped dependabot PR titles became more generic, less specific as follows:

Old: chore(deps): bump the minorandpatch group in /website with 16 updates

New: chore(deps): bump the minorandpatch group across 1 directory with 16 updates

Note: the specific and informative in /website got replaced with the generic across 1 directory making it much harder to tell at a glance what's impacted.

[mvz]

@corneliusroemer I'm not sure your case is exactly the same since in the old pull request title I did not have any directory specification like 'in /website'. All my directories are "/".

[corneliusroemer]

@mvz you are right! In your case it's just extra noise, in my case it's loss of crucial information. I might reopen.

[mvz]

I should add that this happens intermittently. Dependabot just now even closed PRs without 'across 1 directory' and opened new ones including the offending phrase.