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-# Excavator auto-updates this file. Please contribute improvements to the central template.
-
-policy:
-  approval:
-    - or:
-      - one admin has approved (PR contributors not allowed)
-      - two admins have approved
-      - changelog only and contributor approval
-      - fixing excavator
-      - excavator only touched baseline, circle, gradle files, godel files, go dependencies, docker-compose-rule config or versions.props
-      - excavator only touched config files
-      - bots updated package.json and lock files
-  disapproval:
-    requires:
-      organizations: [ "palantir" ]
-
-approval_rules:
-  - name: one admin has approved (PR contributors not allowed)
-    options:
-      allow_contributor: false
-    requires:
-      count: 1
-      admins: true
-
-  - name: two admins have approved
-    options:
-      allow_contributor: true
-    requires:
-      count: 2
-      admins: true
-
-  - name: changelog only and contributor approval
-    options:
-      allow_contributor: true
-    requires:
-      count: 1
-      admins: true
-    if:
-      only_changed_files:
-        paths:
-          - "changelog/@unreleased/.*\\.yml"
-
-  - name: fixing excavator
-    options:
-      allow_contributor: true
-    requires:
-      count: 1
-      admins: true
-    if:
-      has_author_in:
-        users: [ "svc-excavator-bot" ]
-
-  - name: excavator only touched baseline, circle, gradle files, godel files, go dependencies, docker-compose-rule config or versions.props
-    requires:
-      count: 0
-    if:
-      has_author_in:
-        users: [ "svc-excavator-bot" ]
-      only_changed_files:
-        # product-dependencies.lock should never go here, to force review of all product (SLS) dependency changes
-        # this way excavator cannot change the deployability of a service or product via auto-merge
-        paths:
-          - "changelog/@unreleased/.*\\.yml"
-          - "^\\.baseline/.*$"
-          - "^\\.circleci/.*$"
-          - "^\\.docker-compose-rule\\.yml$"
-          - "^.*gradle$"
-          - "^gradle/wrapper/.*"
-          - "^gradlew$"
-          - "^gradlew.bat$"
-          - "^gradle.properties$"
-          - "^settings.gradle$"
-          - "^go.mod$"
-          - "^go.sum$"
-          - "^godelw$"
-          - "^godel/config/godel.properties$"
-          - "^godel/config/godel.yml$"
-          - "^vendor/.*$"
-          - "^versions.props$"
-          - "^versions.lock$"
-
-  - name: excavator only touched config files
-    requires:
-      count: 0
-    if:
-      has_author_in:
-        users: [ "svc-excavator-bot" ]
-      only_changed_files:
-        paths:
-          - "^\\..*.yml$"
-          - "^\\.github/.*$"
-
-  - name: bots updated package.json and lock files
-    requires:
-      count: 0
-    if:
-      has_author_in:
-        users:
-        - "svc-excavator-bot"
-        - "dependabot[bot]"
-      only_changed_files:
-        paths:
-          - "^.*yarn.lock$"
-          - "^.*package.json$"