Dependabot-core: feature request: minimal PR description option/formatting

[tessr]

Right now, Dependabot fills the PR description with HTML. This provides a very pretty PR in the Github UI, but plays poorly with git workflows that use the PR description when that PR is merged. We end up with commit messages that look like this:

This is from https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/commit/ad9003d448abdb1aeb105025fceb683198ffac7b. If you scroll down, you can even see that the commit message has Dependabot usage instructions in there!

It would be awesome to have a formatting option to use plaintext or even markdown for the PR body, and even more awesome to have a "minimal" option that didn't include Dependabot instructions and other superfluous stuff. This seems similar to https://github.com/dependabot/feedback/issues/287, but not exactly.

Thanks y'all! My team loves Dependabot, and we'd love to see it get even better!

[jurre]

Thanks @tessr, awesome to hear that you like dependabot!

We do have some code in dependabot-core to use plaintext or markdown for azure devops and codecommit already, so doing something similar based on a preference for github does not seem that far out.

However, the team is currently swamped scaling up dependabot for github.com, so it might be a while before we get to this.