How to Prevent Deploy Previews for Renovate PRs?

[hillary]

Hey there, @Scott_Vandehey

Thanks for reaching out, and welcome to the Netlify Forums! Good question. I think this thread will help you find a workaround:

Is it possible to have some control over which branches get a deploy preview?

We’ve recently started using renovate for automated package updates, and have deploy previews on for all PR’s (which we’ve started to love and now heavily lean on in our review process). Most of our Netlify build time is now used up by renovate branches/pull requests and we’d like to have more control over which branches are eligible for deploy previews. Is it possible to deploy only certain branch names using an include/exclude pattern so we can fine-tune which branches/PR’s will get a deploy …

Give that a read and let me know if it gets you on the right track!