Document that Dependabot supports updates by commit and commit+tag/release

[yeikel]

Why:

Closes: #41346

What's being changed (if available, include any code snippets, screenshots, or gifs):

Updates the Dependabot documentation to reflect the support for GitHub Actions including

• Update by commit (not just by tag)
• Update the tag/release documentation if provided

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• The changes in this PR meet the docs fundamentals that are required for all content.
• All CI checks are passing and the changes look good in the review environment.

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[yeikel]

@Sharra-writes I am not sure if there is any reusable that captures actions/checkout@<commit> like we have one for reusables.actions.action-checkout %}. If we do, I'd be happy to update it

Thanks!

[Andrej730]

Hi! Thanks for looking into this. There's one more thing it seems to support - if provided hash doesn't have any tag, than dependabot will update it to the latest commit (not the latest release!).

example

From 5651640dc72edabe1a0dc575019d2178acb1b10d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "dependabot[bot]" <49699333+dependabot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:05:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Bump hendrikmuhs/ccache-action in the all-actions group

Bumps the all-actions group with 1 update: [hendrikmuhs/ccache-action](https://github.com/hendrikmuhs/ccache-action).


Updates `hendrikmuhs/ccache-action` from 15457da8f7bbf9b2c71f2efebd847c1a84650208 to 5ebbd400eff9e74630f759d94ddd7b6c26299639
- [Release notes](https://github.com/hendrikmuhs/ccache-action/releases)
- [Commits](https://github.com/hendrikmuhs/ccache-action/compare/15457da8f7bbf9b2c71f2efebd847c1a84650208...5ebbd400eff9e74630f759d94ddd7b6c26299639)

---
updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: hendrikmuhs/ccache-action
  dependency-version: 5ebbd400eff9e74630f759d94ddd7b6c26299639
  dependency-type: direct:production
  dependency-group: all-actions
...

Signed-off-by: dependabot[bot] <support@github.com>
---
 .github/workflows/build-heavy-compile.yml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-heavy-compile.yml b/.github/workflows/build-heavy-compile.yml
index dfba755..c77cd5b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-heavy-compile.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-heavy-compile.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ jobs:
 
     steps:
     - name: Checkout code
-      uses: hendrikmuhs/ccache-action@15457da8f7bbf9b2c71f2efebd847c1a84650208
+      uses: hendrikmuhs/ccache-action@5ebbd400eff9e74630f759d94ddd7b6c26299639
 
     - name: Configure build
       run: |

[yeikel]

Hi! Thanks for looking into this. There's one more thing it seems to support - if provided hash doesn't have any tag, than dependabot will update it to the latest commit (not the latest release!).

Thanks for pointing this out. I updated it with this edge case

[Sharra-writes]

@yeikel Thanks for opening the PR for this! I've contacted the Dependabot team and we'll get their opinion.

[jeffwidman]

Nice fixup @yeikel 😍

[Sharra-writes]

@yeikel This repo is on a deploy freeze for US Thanksgiving because most of the senior level docs team is out for the holiday, but I will mark this as ready to be merged so we can get it done next week.

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[Andrej730]

I can see changes are now live - thank you for your work.