Migrate from Dependabot to Renovate - #142
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Migrates dependency updates from Dependabot to the self-hosted Renovate setup used across team-builds repositories. Part of the team-builds Dependabot -> Renovate migration (DPT-3076).
Renovate treats RENOVATE_BASE_BRANCHES as a branch to reconcile, including deleting it if Renovate considers it an orphan. Setting it to the triggering PR's own head ref is destructive whenever that branch happens to fall under Renovate's own branchPrefix (default "renovate/") -- which is exactly what happened to this migration's branch. Always target main.
Team preference is no dependency dashboard on any of these repos, regardless of whether GitHub Issues is enabled.
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Migrates dependency updates from Dependabot to the self-hosted Renovate setup used across team-builds repositories.
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renovate.json(house config:dependencies/autoapprovelabels,prConcurrentLimit: 1,minimumReleaseAge: 3 days). No dependency dashboard (team preference, regardless of whether Issues is enabled)..github/workflows/renovate.yaml(daily runner; uses theRENOVATE_GITHUB_TOKENrepo secret)..github/workflows/renovate-approve-pr.yaml(auto-approvesteam-builds-botPRs labelledautoapprove, then auto-merges once required status checks pass)..github/dependabot.yml(nuget ecosystem)..github/workflows/dependabot-automerge.yml.Notes
RENOVATE_GITHUB_TOKENrepo-level secret is set on this repo; the runner is not blocked on it.Part of the team-builds Dependabot → Renovate migration (DPT-3076).
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Recreated from #140, which Renovate's own
Check Dependenciesjob deleted the branch of. That job setRENOVATE_BASE_BRANCHESto the PR's own head ref (renovate/migrate-from-dependabot), and since that branch matched Renovate's ownrenovate/branch prefix, Renovate's stale-branch cleanup treated it as an orphan and deleted it -- which closed the PR. This PR uses a non-renovate/-prefixed branch name and fixesRENOVATE_BASE_BRANCHESto always targetmain, so it won't recur.