Ignore manifests in specific subdirectories

[chenrui333]

I have some monorepo in monorepo setup, but I do not want the dependebot scan a sub monorepo folder.

[dhowe]

Need to generally be able to specify sub-folders to ignore
Really annoying

[jirkadev]

@jurre I think this would be quite nice. I also have a test folder with some old abandoned test framework. It has its own package.json. Depandabot is quite crazy about it, even it is not a production code.

[frederikheld]

+1 for this feature! I have exactly the same use case as @jirikrepl and would be very happy if I could exclude specific sub directories.

There's a discussion about this on SO already: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65275433/can-i-exclude-directories-from-github-dependabot

[nicojs]

+1 here. In https://github.com/stryker-mutator/stryker-js, we've defined 40+ end to end tests in the /e2e directory. We also want to make sure StrykerJS works with older versions of test runners, so we have a test for karma-old-version, mocha-old-version, etc.

Now I've noticed that the old version is not so old anymore, since dependabot came a long and it got merged automatically 😢.

[nickgerace]

This feature would be great! Some monorepo refactors use outdated code in a sandboxed directory, and dependabot can be annoying when that code is very much dead (and intentionally so). Yes, you can/should also use a branch/tag, but not everyone prefers to do so.