From 507c64796d39682b42d6afabbc83ecde57251bce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brendan <2bndy5@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2025 13:23:41 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] chore: group dependency updates with exclude-patterns

---
 .github/dependabot.yml | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
index 4ea1aac..69cab0b 100644
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -18,22 +18,27 @@ updates:
     schedule:
       interval: "daily"
     groups:
-      pip:
-        patterns:
-          - "clang-tools"
-          - "cpp-linter"
-      dev:
+      org:
+        # updates about org-maintained packages
         patterns:
+          - "*"
+        exclude-patterns:
           - "mypy"
           - "pre-commit"
           - "ruff"
-        applies-to: "security-updates"
-      docs:
-        patterns:
           - "mkdocs-gen-files"
           - "markdown-gfm-admonition"
           - "mkdocs-include-markdown-plugin"
           - "mkdocs-material"
           - "mkdocs"
           - "pyyaml"
-        applies-to: "security-updates"
+      dev:
+        # updates about everything else
+        patterns:
+          - "*"
+        exclude-patterns:
+          - "clang-tools"
+          - "cpp-linter"
+        update-types:
+          - major
+          - minor

From 65ee548a9cb6bbd3d828a32b6364f0858e38fcce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brendan <2bndy5@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2025 13:33:44 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] use wildcard patterns

---
 .github/dependabot.yml | 20 ++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
index 69cab0b..35eb650 100644
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -23,22 +23,18 @@ updates:
         patterns:
           - "*"
         exclude-patterns:
-          - "mypy"
-          - "pre-commit"
-          - "ruff"
-          - "mkdocs-gen-files"
-          - "markdown-gfm-admonition"
-          - "mkdocs-include-markdown-plugin"
-          - "mkdocs-material"
-          - "mkdocs"
-          - "pyyaml"
+          - "mypy*"
+          - "pre-commit*"
+          - "ruff*"
+          - "mkdocs*"
+          - "pyyaml*"
       dev:
-        # updates about everything else
+        # updates about everything else (dev and docs)
         patterns:
           - "*"
         exclude-patterns:
-          - "clang-tools"
-          - "cpp-linter"
+          - "clang-tools*"
+          - "cpp-linter*"
         update-types:
           - major
           - minor