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Action Required: Fix Renovate Configuration

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Assessment

Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
75/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Quiet
Domain
devops

Research direction

Open renovate.json and inspect packageRules[0].matchPackageNames against the reported Renovate validation message. Validate the configuration after the correction; done means the invalid-settings error is gone and Renovate can resume creating pull requests.

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Description

There is an error with this repository's Renovate configuration that needs to be fixed. As a precaution, Renovate will stop PRs until it is resolved.

Location: renovate.json
Error type: The Renovate configuration file contains some invalid settings
Message: packageRules[0].matchPackageNames: Your input contains * or ** along with other patterns. Please remove them, as * or ** matches all patterns.

Dominant language
JavaScript
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