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Jamie Tanna 2d239d2cc1 docs: explicitly document depTypes each manager supports (#42142)
* docs: explicitly document `depTypes` each manager supports

A long-standing question we receive is "what `depTypes` can I match
against in my project".

Although the best recommendation we usually have is "check the
`packageFiles with updates" log line (as a very key log line for users),
we can go one step further and try and create a stronger contract.

To do this, I've used Claude Sonnet 4.6 to work through the codebase,
determine areas that a `depType` is set in a manager (statically or
dynamically) and generate a structured, typed, means to document how
they're used.

Through a few iterations of the process, and attempts at human-written
documentation, we've settled on:

- prioritising autogenerated documentation (for humans to read) to note
  what `depTypes` are known, and what they are
- `knownDepTypes`, to describe any known, static, `depType`s and their
  human-readable meaning
  - with the `prettyDepType`, if used
- `supportsDynamicDepTypesNote`, to add a Markdown note to the generated
  documentation

While here, we also:

- make sure to note this in the "adding a new package manager"
  documentation
- remove any hand-written references to `depTypes` in each manager's
  documentation page
- correct the Gleam `depTypes`
- make sure to use the `knownDepTypes`'s `prettyDepType` definition if
  we know it, for a given `depType`

The descriptions have been generated by Claude Sonnet, with some
human-written tweaks where appropriate.

[0]: https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/discussions/15176

Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <jamie.tanna+claude-code@mend.io>

* fixup! docs: explicitly document `depTypes` each manager supports

* docs(manager): display `depTypes` documentation if none present

For consistency, and to make it more explicit.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <jamie.tanna+claude-code@mend.io>
2026-03-31 12:08:39 +00:00
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Before running the copier command to update from the template, Renovate exports git insteadOf directives in environment variables.

Renovate uses this logic before it updates the template copy:

The token from the hostRules entry matching hostType=github and matchHost=api.github.com is added as the default authentication for github.com. For those running against github.com, this token will be the default platform token.

Next, all hostRules with both a token or username/password and matchHost will be fetched, except for any github.com one from above.

Rules from this list are converted to environment variable directives if they match any of these characteristics:

  • No hostType is defined, or
  • hostType is git-tags, or
  • hostType is a platform (github, gitlab, azure, etc.)