Error updating branch: update failure (repository=myrepo, branch=renovate/pin-dependencies)

[pascalberger]

What would you like help with?

I would like help with my configuration

How are you running Renovate?

Self-hosted

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Azure DevOps

Please tell us more about your question or problem

I've several warnings like this in Renovate log:

Error updating branch: update failure (repository=myrepo, branch=renovate/pin-dependencies)

I found this blog post which describes a similar issue and solution for it: https://wildwolf.name/configure-renovate-update-devcontainer-images/

I'm using also a RegEx manager with following configuration:

  "customManagers": [
    {
      "customType": "regex",
      "fileMatch": ["(^|/)azure.*pipelines?.*\\.ya?ml$"],
      "matchStrings": [
        "#\\srenovate:\\sdatasource=(?<datasource>.*?) depName=(?<depName>.*?)( versioning=(?<versioning>.*?))?( extractVersion=(?<extractVersion>.*?))?\\s*(container|image):.*:(?<currentValue>\\S*)\\s?"
      ],
    }
  ],

What does autoReplaceStringTemplate mentioned in the blog post do exactly? Does it need to return the whole string for the value returned by matchStrings or only the replacement value for currentValue?

If the former what's the suggestion for a matchString like above, with optional parts, unknown whitespaces, matching on different words?

Thanks
Pascal

Logs (if relevant)

Logs

Log for a dependency found by the regex manager, for which no PR to pin to a specific SHA is created:

"regex": [
           {
             "deps": [
               {
                 "depName": "ghcr.io/swissgrc/azure-pipelines-terraform",
                 "currentValue": "1.8.5",
                 "datasource": "docker",
                 "versioning": "loose",
                 "replaceString": "# renovate: datasource=docker depName=ghcr.io/swissgrc/azure-pipelines-terraform versioning=loose\n    image: ghcr.io/swissgrc/azure-pipelines-terraform:1.8.5\n",
                 "updates": [
                   {
                     "isPinDigest": true,
                     "updateType": "pinDigest",
                     "newValue": "1.8.5",
                     "newDigest": "sha256:d2958072771a46d420e191ed3f69e3767e7f14e06a982de4567d421010762597",
                     "branchName": "renovate/pin-dependencies"
                   }
                 ],
                 "packageName": "ghcr.io/swissgrc/azure-pipelines-terraform",
                 "warnings": [],
                 "sourceUrl": "[https://github.com/swissgrc/docker-azure-pipelines-terraform",](https://github.com/swissgrc/docker-azure-pipelines-terraform%22,)
                 "registryUrl": "https://ghcr.io",/
                 "lookupName": "swissgrc/azure-pipelines-terraform",
                 "currentVersion": "1.8.5",
                 "fixedVersion": "1.8.5"
               }
             ],
             "matchStrings": [
               "#\\srenovate:\\sdatasource=(?<datasource>.*?) depName=(?<depName>.*?)( versioning=(?<versioning>.*?))?( extractVersion=(?<extractVersion>.*?))?\\s*(container|image):.*:(?<currentValue>\\S*)\\s?"
             ],
             "packageFile": "azure-pipelines-ci.yml"
           },

[pascalberger]

#24586 seems to be the same discussion and #24942 open issue.