This deprecates branch-push and branch-merge-commit automergeTypes and replaces with “branch”, which has the same behaviour as the previous branch-push.

BREAKING CHANGE: branch-merge-commit automergeType behaviour is no longer supported, all branch automerges now use branch push approach.

Changes gitAuthor to be an admin-only setting, i.e. configurable by bot admin and not by repo admin.

BREAKING CHANGE: gitAuthor can no longer be configured in repository config and can be set by bot admin only.

For very large repositories, recursing through the entire repo can be very time consuming. Bot admins can now disable file list recursion by setting the env `RENOVATE_DISABLE_FILE_RECURSION=true`. Then only files within the root directory of repositories will be found.

Closes #2172

Updates renovateapp -> renovatebot

This fixes a race condition where if someone merged multiple PRs in a row then a renovation-in-progress would get confused and post a “PR has been edited” message to an already-merged PR.

Closes #2115

Closes #2165

Adds config options force and forceCli. These cover the use case where a certain setting is desired to be forced by the bot admin, regardless of repository config, for example removing all configured schedules in order to force PR creation.

Closes #1731 

This PR adds issue handling functions to the GitLab platform. The implemented functions are `getIssueList`, `ensureIssue` and `ensureIssueClosing` (migrated from GitHub).

Closes #1587 

This solves the problem of nested packageRules, such as when a paths-based rule is used to extend a preset that itself includes packageRules.

Closes https://github.com/renovatebot/config-help/issues/58

Closes #2151

Closes #2141

This PR integrates the `getPrFiles` function into the GitLab's wrapper.

Closes #2085