Automatically merge approved dependencies into target branch

[ZzenlD]

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Self-hosted Renovate CLI

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GitLab (.com or self-hosted)

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I'm not sure if this is possible, and the documentation didn't quite clarify it for me.

I've set "extends": [ ":dependencyDashboardApproval" ] in my renovate.json, so I have to approve every version update in the dashboard first and after that, a seperat merge request is created on the "main"-branch for each approved change.

Is it also possible for Renovate to create a single mergerequest for all approved updates after approval?

That would be convenient - I’d just select which updates I want to test in the dashboard, and shortly after, all updates would be available in the "dependency-updates"-branch. I could then test that branch and manually merge it to “main” afterward.

Has anyone already set this up this way and could help me with the configuration?

I tried that renovate.json, but didnt worked:

{
  "$schema": "https://docs.renovatebot.com/renovate-schema.json",
  "extends": [
    "config:recommended",
    ":configMigration",
    ":dependencyDashboard",
    "abandonments:recommended",
    ":dependencyDashboardApproval"
  ],
  "minimumReleaseAge": "14 days",
  "quadlet": {
    "managerFilePatterns": ["/.+\\.container\\.j2$/"]
  },
  "terraform": {
    "managerFilePatterns": ["/.+\\.tf\\.j2$/"]
  },
  "pre-commit": {
    "enabled": true
  },
  "packageRules": [
    {
      "matchPackageNames": ["*"],
      "groupName": "dependencies"
    }
  ]
}

Thanks :)

Edit: Alternatively, you can create a single merge request for all approved updates, but in that case, the merge request should include the changelog for each individual update. Is that possible? Maybe via packageRules?

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[RahulGautamSingh]

Is it also possible for Renovate to create a single mergerequest for all approved updates after approval?

Not at the moment.