Document how to remove limits in Dependabot

[yeikel]

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What article on docs.github.com is affected?

https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/working-with-dependabot/dependabot-options-reference#open-pull-requests-limit-

What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?

By default, Dependabot sets open-pull-requests-limit to 5, and setting it to 0 disables the ecosystem entirely. What remains unclear is whether there’s an officially supported way to remove this limit.

From empirical testing, using any negative number such as -1 seems to remove the limit, though I haven’t found documentation confirming that this behavior is intentional or supported.

I also understand that setting a very large integer (e.g., 1000000) would have a similar effect, but I think that this is less natural/may cause confusion. This is also not stated clearly

[Jamq2]

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[Sharra-writes]

@yeikel Thanks for opening an issue! I will draft a question for the Dependabot team to ask once people are back from vacation.