Renovate Config

Renovate presets for our GitHub repositories

Validation

Quick test

Run all tests (validation, preset resolution, and dry run):

./test.sh

Manual validation

You can validate the config syntax by running

npx -p  renovate renovate-config-validator

This is run in CI, to try to prevent bad config

Testing

1. Install Renovate CLI:

   npm install -g renovate

2. Create a GITHUB_RENOVATE_TOKEN token

Create a new personal access token in GitHub

export GITHUB_RENOVATE_TOKEN=[your token here]

3. Run the following command

RENOVATE_CONFIG_FILE=~/Sites/renovate-config/quiet.json5 RENOVATE_TOKEN=$GITHUB_RENOVATE_TOKEN  renovate --dry-run=full TryGhost/Ghost

Copyright & License

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