[renovateme] allow passing config.js / config.json

[viceice]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I would like to pass a config.js / config.json to renovate current exection directory, so it can read it.

Describe the solution you'd like Sometimes it's hard to write hostRules as commandline args for renovate, because they need to be an json array. By default renovate will load a config.js or config.json from current directory ( $PWD ), the file can be overridden by RENOVATE_CONFIG_FILE env.

Describe alternatives you've considered encode all params to cli args

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[jycouet]

Sorry, I didn't want to overparametrize this small extension. If you use a .yaml file for your CI, args are already versioned and everything no?

Will it be a real improvement? can't you simply set RENOVATE_CONFIG_FILE path only?

[viceice]

I don't now azure pipelines well.

We have a renovate user who has trouble passing the required parameters to renovate. So i thought is would be nice to pass the config.js to renovate. If your extension is running renovate in the repo root dir, an we put a config.js there, it should work out of the box. What dou you think? Is there any other security layer between?

[jycouet]

Yes, it should work out of the box with the file on the root dir 👍

[viceice]

Can you add a docu hint for the config.js? so new users know about setting. Also a link to https://docs.renovatebot.com/self-hosted-configuration/ for possible options should help.

[jycouet]

Could be a good idea 👍 Would you do a PR with your proposal? (I can't do it right now)

[viceice]

maybe later yes, currently very busy 🙃

[jycouet]

https://github.com/jycouet/VSTSExtensions/commit/89df95c0e8c96697c61f05557899ae2bd4cc1a6a