Need includeForks=true for forked repository?

[HonkingGoose]

How are you running Renovate?

Mend Renovate hosted app on github.com

If you're self-hosting Renovate, tell us what version of Renovate you run.

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If you're self-hosting Renovate, select which platform you are using.

None

If you're self-hosting Renovate, tell us what version of the platform you run.

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Was this something which used to work for you, and then stopped?

It used to work, and then stopped

Wanted end result.

I'm helping to get Renovate configured for a big repository again. 😄

They want:

• No noise
• Only get updates manually via Dependency Dashboard
• Run Renovate on their fork of the Atom editor project

The repository is: https://github.com/pulsar-edit/pulsar/ that's a fork of the Atom editor project. The official Atom project is now deprecated and won't get any updates.

I'm suggesting they use this config to start with:

{
  "extends": ["config:base", ":dependencyDashboardApproval"],
  "includeForks": true
}

I'm worrying a bit that setting includeForks=true will affect the downstream forks of pulsar-edit/edit, for example:

1. includeForks=true in renovate.json for pulsar-edit/edit
2. @username forks pulsar-edit/edit into their own namespace
3. Because @username also uses Renovate hosted app, and allows Renovate to run in all their repositories, and because includeForks=true in the config: get Renovate dependency dashboard issue on their fork

I think this is the key bit of information from our docs for includeForks: ¹

If you are using the hosted Mend Renovate then this option will be configured to true automatically if you "Selected" repositories individually but remain as false if you installed for "All" repositories.

What you tried so far.

Nothing bad happened yet, but I'm trying to prevent noise or trouble for downstream forks of the upstream project.

It appears the pulsar-edit/edit project is asking for GitHub to make the repository a source repository instead of a fork. Then they would not need to have includeForks hence no problems for downstream forks?

Relevant debug logs

There are no logs yet, as the bot hasn't run on the repository.

Footnotes

1. https://docs.renovatebot.com/configuration-options/#includeforks ↩

[rarkins]

Are they using the app?

[HonkingGoose]

I'm nudging them into using the GitHub-hosted Renovate app, because that's easiest to use and explain.

[rarkins]

In this case includeForks=true is set automatically by the bot if they "Select repositories" when installing the app. They only need to set includeForks themselves if they choose "All repositories".

[HonkingGoose]

I'll let them select the repositories individually then. 😉 Thank you for the quick response! 😄