[Gitlab] Merge requests on to a different branch

[michaelgracious]

I've been trying to get the script to use the "develop" branch to check and make merge requests to. and not "master". I have tried to use the .dependabot/config.yaml file, but this does not seem to work for some reason.

Is this a bug? intended? am i doing something wrong?

[greysteil]

Dependabot Script doesn't use the .dependabot/config.yaml file. You can tell it to target a specific branch by specifying that branch when setting up the Source though.

[michaelgracious]

you mean like this?

source = Dependabot::Source.new( provider: "gitlab", hostname: gitlab_hostname, api_endpoint: "https://#{gitlab_hostname}/api/v4", repo: repo_name, directory: directory, branch: ENV["GITLAB_SRC_BRANCH"] || "master", )

Because im currently using the generic update script

[greysteil]

That should do it, yep. It'll be picked up by this line in Dependabot Core.

[michaelgracious]

It does not seem to work, it's still making MR's on master. I'll try to debug this a bit more after the weekend and get back to you on it.

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[michaelgracious]

I haven't been able to determine how or why it keeps referring to the 'master' branch. Maybe it's something im doing wrong, maybe it's a bug :(

[zimmicz]

@michaelgracious I made that work using this:

  source = Dependabot::Source.new(
    provider: "gitlab",
    hostname: gitlab_hostname,
    api_endpoint: "https://#{gitlab_hostname}/api/v4",
    repo: repo_name,
    directory: directory,
    branch: "develop",
  )