different regex Manager

[maximilienkohl]

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Hello Team,

First of all, I would like to express my gratitude for maintaining Renovate—it's a wonderful and powerful tool!

I have a question regarding the Regex Manager. Currently, I have two different regex-based configurations: one for updating .yaml files and another for updating .md files. I would like to know how I can enable separate commit message rules or labeling for each of these file types. At the moment, my global configuration seems to override the specific settings.

Here is my current configuration:

{
  "$schema": "https://docs.renovatebot.com/renovate-schema.json",
  "extends": [
    "config:recommended"
  ],
  "semanticCommits": "enabled",
  "customManagers": [
    {
      "customType": "regex",
      "fileMatch": [
        "^templates/.*\\.ya?ml$",
        "^\\.gitlab/.*\\.ya?ml$",
        "^\\.gitlab-ci\\.ya?ml$"
      ],
      "matchStrings": [
        "\"(?<depName>[\\w.-]+(?:\\:[0-9]+)?(?:\\/[\\w._-]+)+):(?<currentValue>[^\"]+)\""
      ],
      "datasourceTemplate": "docker",
      "packageNameTemplate": "{{{depName}}}",
      "versioningTemplate": "docker"
    }
  ],
  "packageRules": [
    {
      "matchManagers": ["regex"],
      "matchPaths": [
        "^templates/.*\\.ya?ml$",
        "^\\.gitlab/.*\\.ya?ml$",
        "^\\.gitlab-ci\\.ya?ml$"
      ],
      "semanticCommitType": "fix",
      "semanticCommitScope": "deps",
      "commitMessageTopic": "renovate",
      "commitMessageExtra": "{{{newDigestShort}}}"
    }
  ]
}

Is it possible to create a separate match manager, for example, named test1, that includes both rules for .yaml and .md files? Alternatively, is there a better way to achieve my goal of having distinct commit message rules for each file type?

Thank you for your assistance!

Best regards

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[maximilienkohl]

Or is there a way to ‘label’ a regex manager and call the first one e.g. regex1 and then in the second step define some customisations in packageRules for regex1 only?

[rarkins]

There is a feature request for this: #21760