ignorePaths ignored, PRs created anyway #34620

AArnott · 2025-03-04T21:11:10Z

AArnott
Mar 4, 2025

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One of our renovate target repos has a folder that should be left alone. No packages updated within it. We express that with

"ignorePaths": ["**/LegacyPackages/**"],

in our renovate.json file (as a top-level property).

Yet we got a PR that updates several packages (due to grouping), including updating the csproj that we didn't want updated.

Choice bits from the log show that it noticed the property:

DEBUG: Found repo ignorePaths (repository=devdiv/Gladstone)
       "ignorePaths": ["**/LegacyPackages/**"]

But soon after it listed all the package files it found and it included the ignored paths (abbreviated for readability):

DEBUG: Matched 66 file(s) for manager nuget: .config/dotnet-tools.json, Directory.Build.props, Directory.Build.targets, Directory.Packages.props, azure-pipelines/NuGetSbom.targets, global.json, src/InProc/Extensibility.VSPackage/Microsoft.VisualStudio.Extensibility.VSPackage.csproj, src/InProc/LegacyPackages/Directory.Build.props, src/InProc/LegacyPackages/Version17.12.12/Version17.12.12.csproj, src/OptProf.targets, src/Project/DebugHost/Microsoft.VisualStudio.Extensibility.Debugging.DebugHost.csproj (repository=devdiv/Gladstone)

One of the packages updated within that csproj file was in fact recognized by renovate as coming from the path that we excluded:

             {
               "datasource": "nuget",
               "depName": "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Extensibility.Contracts",
               "displayPending": "",
               "currentVersion": "17.12.12-preview1",
               "currentValue": "17.12.12-preview1",
               "newValue": "17.13.2060",
               "newVersion": "17.13.2060",
               "packageFile": "src/InProc/LegacyPackages/Version17.12.12/Version17.12.12.csproj",
               "updateType": "minor",
               "packageName": "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Extensibility.Contracts"
             },

What do we need to do to get renovate to ignore all projects with /LegacyPackages/ in the path?