Force group names even for single dependency

[TWiStErRob]

How are you running Renovate?

Mend Renovate hosted app on github.com

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github.com

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

I never saw this working

Wanted end result.

I want the single-dependency updates like

• Update dependency org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin from 1.6.20 to 1.6.21 TWiStErRob/net.twisterrob.cinema#113
• Update dependency org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-core from 1.6.3 to 1.6.4 TWiStErRob/net.twisterrob.cinema#171

to be titled the same way as many-dependency-in-a-group updates

• Update Kotlin from 1.9.10 to 1.9.20 (minor) TWiStErRob/net.twisterrob.cinema#584

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Note: I have a custom commit message, you can ignore that for this issue:

"commitMessageExtra": "from {{{currentValue}}} to {{{newValue}}}{{#if isMajor}} (major v{{{newMajor}}}){{else}}{{/if}}",

https://github.com/TWiStErRob/renovate-config/blob/2587a12aa40310f6aea9bdb40a281436458f086b/default.json#L10

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The key here is that I always want the Monorepo's group name in the PR title, even if it's just one dependency being updated.

What you tried so far.

I have a group set up for "Kotlin":

"packageRules": [
	{
		"groupName": "Kotlin",
		"description": "Group together all dependencies from Kotlin, Dokka and KotlinX, including coroutines.",
		"matchPackagePatterns": [
			"^org\\.jetbrains\\.kotlin:kotlin-.*$",
			"^org\\.jetbrains\\.kotlin\\.(.+):org\\.jetbrains\\.kotlin\\.(\\$1)\\.gradle\\.plugin$"
		],

https://github.com/TWiStErRob/renovate-config/blob/2587a12aa40310f6aea9bdb40a281436458f086b/group.json#L34-L42

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This was set up even at the time of the other updates! However, since maven publishing might happen slowly on the Kotlin side, or some dependencies have slightly different cadence, Renovate picked up and merged some singular updates. I've since added "minimumReleaseAge": "8 hours" to reduce the possibility of this, but I'm still getting occasional single-update PRs. Especially in repos where there is only one dependency. I would like to have this work consistently across all repos regardless of number references from a group.

Relevant debug logs

Not sure if there are relevant logs.

[rarkins]

This is not a first-class config option but could potentially be "hacked" as you're trying.

I originally had this configuration option but removed it years ago after nobody seemed to use it. I referred to it as something like "lazy" or "eager" group PR title naming (with lazy being the default like today).

We could make it a boolean option now, something like groupNamePrTitleAlways, defaulting to false. You're welcome to submit a PR for this, if you wish

[NikolayFrantsev]

It’s not very convenient, but the requested behavior can be achieved by overriding the commit message properties:

  "packageRules": [{
      "matchPackageNames": ["/.*eslint.*/"],
      "groupName": "eslint with plugins",

      "commitMessageTopic": "eslint with plugins",
      "commitMessageExtra": ""
    }]

[TWiStErRob]

I explicitly have commitMessageExtra overridden, is setting it to empty something required for this to work, or you think it's irrelevant?

[NikolayFrantsev]

For your specific case, I believe you should set "commitMessageTopic" to "Kotlin" and keep "commitMessageExtra" with your custom value. That will force single-group commits to be named the same way as commits with multiple packages.

[TWiStErRob]

Confirmed in TWiStErRob/glide-support@98688a4
It changed TWiStErRob/glide-support#481 as expected.

[TWiStErRob]

For the record I also tried adding a global

commitMessageTopic: "{{#if groupName}}{{{groupName}}}{{else}}{{{depName}}}{{/if}}"

but it did this:

-Update dependency com.android.application from 9.2.0-rc01 to 9.3.0-alpha01
+Update com.android.application from 9.2.0-rc01 to 9.3.0-alpha01

and I tried a package rule where I set the group:

groupName: "Android Gradle Plugin",
commitMessageTopic: "{{{groupName}}}",

and that resulted in

-Update dependency com.android.application from 9.2.0-rc01 to 9.3.0-alpha01
+Update from 9.2.0-rc01 to 9.3.0-alpha01

so apparently only the hard override works.