Force dependabot to scan my github repo without open PRs

Question

I have dependabot enabled in my GitHub repo.

However there is currently no open PR by it.

I in my repo the following message

Dependabot updates are paused We noticed you haven't used Dependabot in a while, so we've paused new pull requests for you. Merge a Dependabot pull request to resume automatically creating Dependabot updates or disable security and version updates. See open Dependabot pull requests

How can I force dependabot to run/scan my repo?

Dormie

Answer 1

As mentioned by fbiville in reply to Akae Beka yesterday, and to complete Akae Beka's answer: You need to go to: Insights > Dependency Graph > Dependabot, and from there click on "Recent update jobs."

You should then see a "Check for updates" button on that page.

See screenshots of the "Recent update jobs" link and the "Check for updates" button.

Protactinium

This might be good to know: once I committed a Dependabot config, it immediately kicked off an update job, so there's no need to trigger it manually in that case. – Laborious

Answer 2

To manually run/scan the dependabot, go to Insights > Dependency Graph > Dependabot.

Github Dependabot

There you will be able to see your dependencies and the logs of the dependabot executions.

Hope this helps.

Insensate

Still no option to trigger a Dependabot run, though? Or am I missing something? – Machos

I couldn't tell you, I think that once configured it will perform the scan based on what is declared in your dependabot.yml file. – Insensate

I was able to trigger Dependabot by following the path above. Then click on "Recent update jobs" and you should see a "Check for updates" call to action. – Wend