How to temporarily disable renovatebot

You may want to temporarily disable renovatebot if you do not want to be distracted with "business as usual" Merge Requests during some critical period or if a project is being mothballed.

Tip

If you only want to stop renovatebot merging its Merge Requests automatically, you can disable automerge instead of disabling renovatebot entirely.

Set the enabled flag to false

To disable renovatebot, add the following to renovate.json:

renovate.json

{
  // ... other config ...
  "enabled": false
}

Permanently disabling renovatebot

You can permanently disable renovatebot by removing the renovate.json file.

Summary

In this guide you learned how to temporarily and permanently disable renovatebot for your project.