Commit f063c555 authored by sebastienr's avatar sebastienr Committed by Michael Kriese
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docs: rename GITHUB_COM_TOKEN to RENOVATE_GITHUB_COM_TOKEN (renovate-bot/renovate-runner!3307)

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@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ You need to add a GitLab [Personal Access Token](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user 
You can also use a GitLab [Group Access Token](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/group/settings/group_access_tokens.html).

Checkout Renovate platform [docs](https://docs.renovatebot.com/modules/platform/gitlab/) and #53 for more information.



It is also recommended to configure a [GitHub.com Personal Access Token](https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/authenticating-to-github/creating-a-personal-access-token) (minimum scopes) as `GITHUB_COM_TOKEN` so that your bot can make authenticated requests to github.com for Changelog retrieval as well as for any dependency that uses GitHub tags.

It is also recommended to configure a [GitHub.com Personal Access Token](https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/authenticating-to-github/creating-a-personal-access-token) (minimum scopes) as `RENOVATE_GITHUB_COM_TOKEN` so that your bot can make authenticated requests to github.com for Changelog retrieval as well as for any dependency that uses GitHub tags.

Without such a token, github.com's API will rate limit requests and make such lookups unreliable.



Finally, you need to decide how your bot should decide which projects to run against.