diff --git a/docs/usage/modules/datasource.md b/docs/usage/modules/datasource.md index 5f8369a39555dc9a76a54e16e7498f7ef53bb9eb..63af0121af17d6cfe0567fc06876be7072b101ef 100644 --- a/docs/usage/modules/datasource.md +++ b/docs/usage/modules/datasource.md @@ -4,8 +4,11 @@ title: Datasources # Datasources -Once Renovate's manager is done scanning files and extracting dependencies, it will assign a `datasource` to each extracted package file and/or dependency so that Renovate then knows how to search for new versions. -You do not need to ever configure/override datasources directly, but you may use them in a `packageRules` array to configure other aspects of Renovate's behavior, e.g. +After Renovate's manager scanned the files and extracted the dependencies, it assigns a `datasource` to each extracted package file or dependency. +The `datasource` tells Renovate how to search for new versions. + +You don't need to configure or override datasources. +But you may use datasources in a `packageRules` array to configure Renovate's behavior, for example: ```json {