Config-help: Question: How to commit a default renovate.json file in onboarding PR?

[hi-larry]

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What would you like Renovate to be able to do?
At the moment, Renovate creates an onboarding PR with an empty renovate.json file. I'd like Renovate to commit a default renovate.json (by providing the path to the file) to this PR, otherwise I'd have 100+ repos to manually add a configuration file.

Describe alternatives you've considered
I tried adding the environment variable RENOVATE_CONFIG_FILE on repositories with and without Renovate configured. i.e. Running the renovate command on a repository that requires an onboarding PR (I guess it is expected that this doesn't work) and running it on a repository that already has a renovate.json. Are there any specifics to use for this environment variable to work?

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

[rarkins]

Hi, please try the onboardingConfig option. You can configure it in config.js or as stringified JSON in env (RENOVATE_ONBOARDING_CONFIG.

[rarkins]

This lets you specify which config is added in the renovate.json on all future onboarding PRs