It's a bot which creates a PR on GitHub for each dependency update. You won't see it in the Apache git probably.
You can disable the bot using a config file or exclude some dependencies etc. Most projects use it by now, but often major updates are being closed and manually updated instead. On Thu, 3 Jun 2021, 18:23 Gilles Sadowski, <gillese...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello. > > What's the purpose of all those "dependabot" branches? > > $ git branch -a > 1.0-beta1-release > * master > remotes/github/master > remotes/origin/1.0-beta1-release > remotes/origin/GEOMETRY-53 > remotes/origin/GEOMETRY-54 > remotes/origin/GEOMETRY-56 > remotes/origin/dependabot/maven/com.github.spotbugs-spotbugs-4.2.0 > > remotes/origin/dependabot/maven/com.github.spotbugs-spotbugs-maven-plugin-4.1.4 > > remotes/origin/dependabot/maven/com.github.spotbugs-spotbugs-maven-plugin-4.2.0 > > remotes/origin/dependabot/maven/com.github.spotbugs-spotbugs-maven-plugin-4.2.2 > remotes/origin/dependabot/maven/com.puppycrawl.tools-checkstyle-8.38 > remotes/origin/dependabot/maven/com.puppycrawl.tools-checkstyle-8.39 > remotes/origin/dependabot/maven/com.puppycrawl.tools-checkstyle-8.41.1 > remotes/origin/dependabot/maven/com.puppycrawl.tools-checkstyle-8.43 > remotes/origin/dependabot/maven/geometry.pmd.dep.version-6.30.0 > remotes/origin/dependabot/maven/geometry.pmd.dep.version-6.31.0 > remotes/origin/dependabot/maven/geometry.pmd.dep.version-6.35.0 > remotes/origin/dependabot/maven/jmh.version-1.27 > remotes/origin/dependabot/maven/jmh.version-1.32 > > remotes/origin/dependabot/maven/org.apache.maven.plugins-maven-checkstyle-plugin-3.1.2 > > remotes/origin/dependabot/maven/org.apache.maven.plugins-maven-pmd-plugin-3.14.0 > remotes/origin/dependabot/maven/org.ekstazi-ekstazi-maven-plugin-5.3.0 > remotes/origin/dependabot/maven/org.junit-junit-bom-5.7.1 > remotes/origin/dependabot/maven/org.junit-junit-bom-5.7.2 > remotes/origin/master > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
