chore: disable major Go dependency updates in Renovate - #94
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Major Go module version bumps require import path changes throughout the source code, which Renovate cannot do automatically. Disable these PRs to avoid noise from incomplete updates.
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renovate.json
| "matchManagers": ["gomod"], | ||
| "excludePackageNames": ["go"], | ||
| "matchUpdateTypes": ["major"], | ||
| "groupName": "Go dependencies (major)" |
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nit: I guess we could keep the groupName if we want to toggle it back (in case CVE handling requires it)
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Major Go module upgrades require changing import paths throughout the source code (e.g. github.com/go-chi/chi → github.com/go-chi/chi/v5), which Renovate cannot do automatically. The resulting PRs only update go.mod/go.sum but leave the source code on the old import paths, making them incomplete and misleading (e.g. #86).
Disabling these makes major upgrades an intentional manual process, which they have to be anyway.