When you have other bots which commit in addition to Renovate PRs, and don't desire Renovate to treat these PRs as modified, then incorporate one other Git author(s) to gitIgnoredAuthors. Simply because fileMatch is mergeable, you don't need to replicate the defaults and will insert the missing file like this: https://miless123hfe3.bcbloggers.com/31794582/an-unbiased-view-of-renovate