GitHub App - PR Status Update - Validation Failed (422)

[ghost]

This is a:

• Bug report (non-security related)
• Feature request
• I'm not sure which of those it is

I'm using:

• The Renovate GitHub App
• Self-hosted GitHub
• Self-hosted GitLab
• Self-hosted VSTS

Please describe the issue:

There is a branch on a repository with the name refactor/renovate, and that branch has been opened as a Pull Request against the master branch. The branch contains a modification to the repository's renovate.json file.

In our Renovate App logs (for an on-premise Renovate) we are seeing the following:

 INFO: Setting PR validation status (repository=org/repo)
       "status": "success",
       "description": "Renovate config is valid"
DEBUG: GET repos/org/repo/git/refs/heads/refactor/renovate [retries=5] (repository=org/repo)
DEBUG: POST repos/org/repo/statuses/a434add208049301ef8334cb1299036deadb3016 [retries=5] (repository=org/repo)
 WARN: Error checking PR (repository=org/repo)

Contained in the error object is the following:

 "message": "Validation Failed (422)",
       "body": {
         "message": "Validation Failed",
         "errors": [
           {
             "resource": "Status",
             "code": "custom",
             "message": "This SHA and context has reached the maximum number of statuses."
           }
         ]
       },
       "prNo": 60,
       "branchName": "refactor/renovate"

On the following line I was able to see the following property values:

pr.branch - refactor/renovate
context - renovate/validate
description - Renovate config is valid
status - success

It looks like Renovate has been trying to set the status on every run, and it has exceeded the 1000 status updates that are allowed. (This is a rather old pull request, and our Renovate runs every 10 minutes)

[rarkins]

oh wow, I assumed if you use the same context for status set then it counts as one "status update".

[renovate-bot]

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 11.47.5 🎉

The release is available on:

• npm package (@latest dist-tag)
• GitHub release

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