Pull request cannot be activated

Error: Message TF401398: The pull request cannot be activated because the source and/or the target branch no longer exists, or the requested refs are not branches

YAML:

steps:
- task: dependabot@1
  inputs:
    packageManager: "pip"
    openPullRequestsLimit: 1
    versioningStrategy: "auto"
    targetBranch: development

Detailed Logs:

Digest: sha256:64616d4509746920bc7be0348e44a10b0d9ea6e9b87668b91dace9e5e933d1d9
Status: Downloaded newer image for tingle/dependabot-azure-devops:0.2
Using 'dev.azure.com' as hostname
Fetching pip dependency files for organisation/Kep/_git/Kep
Targeting 'development' branch under '/' directory
Using 'auto' versioning strategy
Parsing dependencies information
Checking if flask-appbuilder 3.1.1 needs updating
Requirements to unlock own
Updating flask-appbuilder from 3.1.1 to 3.2.0
Submitting flask-appbuilder pull request for creation. Failed! PR already exists or an error has occurred.
Status: 400.
Message TF401398: The pull request cannot be activated because the source and/or the target branch no longer exists, or the requested refs are not branches
Limit of open pull requests (1) reached.

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@mburumaxwell -

1. I have removed steps 3 and 4 from the repository.
2. depend-new branch does exist in the same repository
3. Dependabot it not creating any branches in the repo. I searched by “dependabot” and the result is blank

Update:

The reason for above that there was repository existing with the name dependabot. After manually deleting the same and re-running the pipeline it seems to run just fine.

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@mburumaxwell - Hey thanks for the guidance. I am marking this as closed 😃