Dependabot-core: Ability to define update groups (monorepos)

[wolfy1339]

With Greenkeeper, one cool feature is that I can have it update a dependency across multiple packages in the same repo in a single PR.

In the config you would create these groups and they would be (example for JavaScript) an array containing paths to the package root relative to the repository's root

[mwarkentin]

We have some repos using Renovate and it seems to have similar capabilities - our devs would like to have the ability to group minor and major upgrades separately:

I don't think it offers a convenient way to split out minor package upgrades from major ones (see "Groups" https://renovatebot.com/docs/presets-group/)

[gperdomor]

Current:

Expected:

[wolfy1339]

I don't think I explained this well enough. What I want is an option so that dependabot only opens one PR which updates a given dependency across all the packages in a monorepo instead of one per package in that repo

[EvHaus]

Agreed. Dependabot is much better than greenkeeper in many ways, but this is something I miss after migrating away from greenkeeper very much. Having to merge separate PRs for what is ultimately a single update (eg. babel, jest, react) causes all sorts of rebase conflicts, etc...

[rebelagentm]

👋 Supporting ways to group pull requests is high on our list of enhancements to add to Dependabot as soon as our team gets the capacity to focus on them.

[infin8x]

Duplicate of #1190