Fetch Changelog from Subdirectory

[mogrady88]

What would you like help with?

I would like help with my configuration

How are you running Renovate?

Self-hosted

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GitLab

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I have several projects that are consumed by other teams. In these projects I would like to set the correct path to my changelog so that the renovate MRs that come up for people will have the pertinent changelog entries in the MR. Some projects are working correctly when the CHANGELOG is adjacent to the renovate.json file and the git url is set correctly. My problem is with a single project that contains several subdirectories like so:

// my project
renovate.json
package.json
gitlab-ci.yml
README
src/
   subproject-1/
       package.json
       src/
         ...somecode
   subproject-2/
       package.json
       src/
         ...somecode
   subproject-3/
       package.json
       src/
         ...somecode
   self-hosted-docs-for-all-projects/
       package.json
       CHANGELOG // contains updates for project 1,2,3 and I would like to point my root config here
       src/
         ...somecode

The changelog I'd like to point to should be formatted just fine, I just need to make renovate aware of it. Its a single git repository at the root with some sub projects and a documentation app (where we keep the CHANGELOG as we have a page for it on the docs app)

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[rarkins]

npm has a standard way for packages to indicate this using the directory field under repository, e.g.

{
  "repository": {
    "type": "git",
    "url": "https://github.com/facebook/react.git",
    "directory": "packages/react-dom"
  }
}

[mogrady88]

I will give that a try. Thank you!

[Robin-Ln]

Hello!

I have the same issue with my repository.

I've configured my package.json here: packages/cli-create-app/package.json.

I've published my module on GitLab and added this configuration:

"packageRules": [
  {
    "matchPackageNames": [
      "...",
      "@my-company/cli-create-app"
    ],
    "registryUrls": [
      "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/56880161/packages/npm/"
    ]
  }
]

However, the changelogs are not showing up in the section Release Notes of the MR.

Could you help me with this? 🙏