How to group updates by file?

[justyns]

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I am trying to figure out how to group updates by file automatically. I have a config like this that is working:

"packageRules": [
  {
    "matchDatasources": ["docker"],
    "matchedFileNames": ["namespaces/dev1/config.yaml"],
    "groupName": "dev1 dependencies",
  },
  {
    "matchDatasources": ["docker"],
    "matchedFileNames": ["namespaces/dev2/config.yaml"],
    "groupName": "dev2 dependencies",
  },
  {
    "matchDatasources": ["docker"],
    "matchedFileNames": ["namespaces/qa1/config.yaml"],
    "groupName": "qa1 dependencies",
  },
]

However, I don't want to have to specify every config.yaml in a separate rule. Is there a way to define one rule that uses regex or a wildcard to match the file and then include part of that file path in the group name?

Or is there a better way in general to handle something like this? Essentially I am wanting to update all dependencies in a file(namespace) in one PR, instead of one PR for each dependency. Each of these config.yaml files contain the same or similar dependencies, but we can only deploy updates to a single namespace at a time - e.g. we don't want to deploy an updated image to dev, qa, and prod all at the same time.

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[RahulGautamSingh]

You can use template fields for this. Checkout https://docs.renovatebot.com/templates/#template-fields

[justyns]

Thanks, that was easier than expected! I was able to use {{parentDir}} to get what I needed for this case