From 541cb0cb90700db7f133e86abd19c563ca82f84f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Malte=20M=C3=BCnch?= <mamu+github@stablerock.de>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2023 07:16:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] docs: do not git add in post upgrade tasks (#21828)

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 docs/usage/configuration-options.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/usage/configuration-options.md b/docs/usage/configuration-options.md
index 6b46b8c499..862fc39935 100644
--- a/docs/usage/configuration-options.md
+++ b/docs/usage/configuration-options.md
@@ -2554,6 +2554,10 @@ A list of commands that are executed after Renovate has updated a dependency but
 
 You can use variable templating in your commands if [`allowPostUpgradeCommandTemplating`](https://docs.renovatebot.com/self-hosted-configuration/#allowpostupgradecommandtemplating) is enabled.
 
+<!-- prettier-ignore -->
+!!! note
+    Do not use `git add` in your commands to add new files to be tracked, add them by including them in your [`fileFilters`](https://docs.renovatebot.com/self-hosted-configuration/#filefilters) instead.
+
 ### fileFilters
 
 A list of glob-style matchers that determine which files will be included in the final commit made by Renovate.
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