description:How to reconfigure Renovate once it's onboarded
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# Reconfiguring Renovate
There will likely be times when you need to change your Renovate config. There are two recommended approaches:
## Reconfigure via PR
Create a PR that includes "Renovate" in its title, e.g. "Reconfigure Renovate" or "Update Renovate Configuration". Doing so will flag it to Renovate the next time it runs.
If Renovate detects that such a PR includes changes to any of the Renovate configuratino files (e.g. `renovate.json`) then it will run its validation against this new config and set a status check result of "success" if it passes or "failed" if it does not. This way you can be sure that your config is at least valid before merging.
## Nuke config and re-onboard
Perhaps you really liked the interactive PR and want to see it again. In that case:
1. Find and rename your original `Configure Renovate` PR (e.g. appending " - old" to the title)
2. Delete your Renovate config from your base branch
This will be enough to trick Renovate into thinking that the repository was _never_ onboarded and it will trigger a Configure Renovate PR again. Any existing Renovate PRs may be closed, however.
