Feature request: matchAutomerge in packageRules

[jlssmt]

Problem

We want to add a label (e.g. deploy-preview) to all PRs that need manual review, but skip it for automerge PRs to avoid unnecessary CI deployments.

Right now there is no clean way to do this. The only option is to set labels: ["deploy-preview"] globally and then override with labels: [] in every single automerge rule. That gets messy fast, and it also does not cover automerge configured in repo-level renovate.json5 files.

Suggestion

Add matchAutomerge as a valid packageRule selector:

{
  "packageRules": [
    {
      "matchAutomerge": false,
      "addLabels": ["deploy-preview"]
    }
  ]
}

Would make it possible to apply labels/settings only to PRs that wont automerge, without having to enumerate every automerge rule.

[RahulGautamSingh]

I understand the need but matchAutomerge does not make sense because automerge is a config option set by user and not a fact/truth about the package, which can be matched against.

There is a existing solution for this if you use matchJsonata:

{
  "packageRules": [
    {
      "matchJsonata": ["automerge = false"],
      "addLabels": ["deploy-preview"]
    }
  ]
}