Why does dependabot run git config commands before every dependency check?

[fragkakis]

Our dependabot run on github actions (via the out-of-the-box Github integration) runs the same git config commands before every github action.

They don't take up time, but they spam the logs and make it difficult to debug other issues.

For example:

2025-02-20T06:48:05.6883377Z   proxy | 2025/02/20 06:48:05 [545] GET https://rubygems.org:443/api/v1/versions/rubocop-minitest.json
2025-02-20T06:48:05.6996750Z   proxy | 2025/02/20 06:48:05 [545] 200 https://rubygems.org:443/api/v1/versions/rubocop-minitest.json
2025-02-20T06:48:05.7070481Z updater | 2025/02/20 06:48:05 INFO <job_967833452> Latest version is 0.37.1
2025-02-20T06:48:05.7071419Z updater | 2025/02/20 06:48:05 INFO <job_967833452> Adding dependencies as handled: (rubocop-minitest).
2025-02-20T06:48:05.7223280Z updater | 2025/02/20 06:48:05 INFO <job_967833452> Started process PID: 1639 with command: {} git config --global credential.helper '!/home/dependabot/common/lib/dependabot/../../bin/git-credential-store-immutable --file /home/dependabot/dependabot-updater/git.store' {}
2025-02-20T06:48:05.7291449Z updater | 2025/02/20 06:48:05 INFO <job_967833452> Process PID: 1639 completed with status: pid 1639 exit 0
2025-02-20T06:48:05.7293765Z updater | 2025/02/20 06:48:05 INFO <job_967833452> Total execution time: 0.01 seconds
2025-02-20T06:48:05.7310160Z updater | 2025/02/20 06:48:05 INFO <job_967833452> Started process PID: 1646 with command: {} git config --global --replace-all url.https://github.com/.insteadOf ssh://git@github.com/ {}
2025-02-20T06:48:05.7360534Z updater | 2025/02/20 06:48:05 INFO <job_967833452> Process PID: 1646 completed with status: pid 1646 exit 0
2025-02-20T06:48:05.7362969Z updater | 2025/02/20 06:48:05 INFO <job_967833452> Total execution time: 0.01 seconds
2025-02-20T06:48:05.7375942Z updater | 2025/02/20 06:48:05 INFO <job_967833452> Started process PID: 1652 with command: {} git config --global --add url.https://github.com/.insteadOf ssh://git@github.com: {}
2025-02-20T06:48:05.7415149Z updater | 2025/02/20 06:48:05 INFO <job_967833452> Process PID: 1652 completed with status: pid 1652 exit 0
2025-02-20T06:48:05.7418602Z updater | 2025/02/20 06:48:05 INFO <job_967833452> Total execution time: 0.01 seconds
2025-02-20T06:48:05.7426165Z updater | 2025/02/20 06:48:05 INFO <job_967833452> Started process PID: 1658 with command: {} git config --global --add url.https://github.com/.insteadOf git@github.com: {}
2025-02-20T06:48:05.7468322Z updater | 2025/02/20 06:48:05 INFO <job_967833452> Process PID: 1658 completed with status: pid 1658 exit 0
2025-02-20T06:48:05.7473040Z updater | 2025/02/20 06:48:05 INFO <job_967833452> Total execution time: 0.01 seconds
2025-02-20T06:48:05.7480109Z updater | 2025/02/20 06:48:05 INFO <job_967833452> Started process PID: 1664 with command: {} git config --global --add url.https://github.com/.insteadOf git@github.com/ {}
2025-02-20T06:48:05.7525613Z updater | 2025/02/20 06:48:05 INFO <job_967833452> Process PID: 1664 completed with status: pid 1664 exit 0
2025-02-20T06:48:05.7526597Z updater | 2025/02/20 06:48:05 INFO <job_967833452> Total execution time: 0.01 seconds
2025-02-20T06:48:05.7555973Z updater | 2025/02/20 06:48:05 INFO <job_967833452> Started process PID: 1670 with command: {} git config --global --add url.https://github.com/.insteadOf git://github.com/ {}

[kbukum1]

@fragkakis,

Can we create an issue for that so we can clean-up the unnecessary info log?

[kbukum1]

@fragkakis ,

Is it possible if you can create a PR for that so we can merge it into the code?

CC: @abdulapopoola

[fragkakis]

@kbukum1 what issue type do you prefer?