What's the purpose of the workspace? #2817
              
                
                  
                  
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         Scala-steward seems to run fine without it. Maybe it's just an optimization to minimize API calls?  | 
  
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         It is more than an optimization. Some features do not work if it is not persisted between runs. For example, closing obsolete PRs and the   | 
  
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It is more than an optimization. Some features do not work if it is not persisted between runs. For example, closing obsolete PRs and the
pullRequests.frequencyfeatures do not work without a workspace. See also https://github.com/scala-steward-org/scala-steward/blob/main/modules/docs/mdoc/running.md#workspace.