From 805988ecc3be5c4661454bbd8b0455b70eca8d00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: HonkingGoose <34918129+HonkingGoose@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 08:02:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs(datasources): rewrite intro (#15725) --- docs/usage/modules/datasource.md | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/usage/modules/datasource.md b/docs/usage/modules/datasource.md index 5f8369a395..63af0121af 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 { -- GitLab