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Enables prefer-named-capture-group and add the missing capture group names or changes groups to non-capturing ones ( (?:) )

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secustor and others added 13 commits July 19, 2026 23:18
Numbered capture groups (m[1], $1) break silently when a regex is
edited and group order shifts. Named groups (?<name>...) make intent
explicit and accesses (m.groups.name) resilient to reordering.

This enables the built-in eslint rule prefer-named-capture-group,
surfacing 321 pre-existing unnamed-group violations across ~121
files to be burned down incrementally in follow-up commits.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017RxHFNsSworLcv23xXk9Hk
Burns down all prefer-named-capture-group violations in
lib/modules/versioning/. Unused capture groups (only reachable via
.test() or whole-match) become non-capturing (?:...); groups whose
value is read become named (?<name>...), with accesses rewritten to
match.groups!.<name> (or destructured from .groups!) instead of
positional match[n]/$n so a future edit that reorders groups cannot
silently break the reader.

Two cases needed extra care to preserve behavior:
- semver/common.ts and poetry/patterns.ts split() on a regex whose
  capture group is relied upon by String.prototype.split to keep the
  separator in the output array; the group is kept capturing and
  named, not converted to non-capturing.
- hashicorp/convertor.ts's semverRegex is only ever embedded via
  .source into a named `(?<version>...)` group elsewhere and never
  matched directly, so its internal groups are safe to make
  non-capturing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017RxHFNsSworLcv23xXk9Hk
Burns down all prefer-named-capture-group violations under
lib/modules/datasource/. Same treatment as the versioning module:
unused groups become non-capturing, used groups get names, and
positional match[n] reads move to match.groups!.<name>.

docker/ecr.ts and pypi/common.ts keep their positional destructuring
(`const [, region] = ...`, `!!m &&`) working unchanged since a named
capture group is still addressable by its numeric index in
JavaScript — only pypi/common.ts's access was rewritten to
m.groups!.owner for clarity since it read a single group directly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017RxHFNsSworLcv23xXk9Hk
Burns down all prefer-named-capture-group violations under
lib/modules/platform/. Uses the repo's established idiom of
`match.groups?.<name>` after an optional-chained exec()/match() (see
bitbucket/index.ts hostnameWithoutApiPrefix, gerrit/utils.ts
extractSourceBranch) and `$<name>` in String.replace replacement
strings. Unused groups (markdown/HTML massaging regexes matched only
to be stripped) become non-capturing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017RxHFNsSworLcv23xXk9Hk
…amed-capture-group

Burns down prefer-named-capture-group violations in
lib/modules/manager/ansible-galaxy/. newBlockRegEx and blockLineRegEx
dropped their unused outer wrapping group (only the inner key/value
groups were ever read) and named the key/value groups; nameMatchRegex's
remaining unused groups (protocol/user-info/port alternatives) become
non-capturing since only source/hostname/depName/version are read via
.groups. Accesses in collections.ts and roles.ts move from
lineMatch[2]/lineMatch[3] to lineMatch.groups!.key/value.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017RxHFNsSworLcv23xXk9Hk
… (batch 1)

Burns down prefer-named-capture-group violations across the first
alphabetical slice of lib/modules/manager/ (ansible through mix).
Used groups get names with accesses rewritten to match.groups!.<name>
(or $<name> in replacement strings); groups whose value is never read
become non-capturing (?:...). Two String.split() call sites
(git-submodules/extract.ts, meteor/extract.ts) keep the established
"named group still readable positionally from the split() result
array" idiom instead of restructuring the destructuring.

bazel/rules/go.ts and buildpacks/extract.ts dockerRef verified
byte-for-byte equivalent before/after via a quick node script since
several nested groups collapsed to non-capturing at once.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017RxHFNsSworLcv23xXk9Hk
… (batch 2)

Burns down prefer-named-capture-group violations across the remaining
alphabetical slice of lib/modules/manager/ (npm through terragrunt).
Same treatment as batch 1: used groups get names with accesses moved
to match.groups!.<name> or $<name> replacement strings; unused groups
(wrapping alternations, quantifier repetition groups only consumed via
.test(), or values never read from a match) become non-capturing.

terraform/extractors/others/modules.ts and terragrunt/modules.ts share
near-identical URL-parsing regexes (github/bitbucket/git/azure-devops
ref matchers) — the same set of always-unused `depth=`/`&depth=`
query-string groups is converted to non-capturing in both files.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017RxHFNsSworLcv23xXk9Hk
Burns down prefer-named-capture-group violations in lib/config/.
Used groups get names with replacement strings switched from $1/$2 to
$<name>; the unused separator group in schedule-migration.ts's
afterBeforeRegex becomes non-capturing. presets/parse.ts keeps
assigning through the already-declared `repo` variable rather than
array-destructuring the exec() result, matching this file's existing
style for the other named-group regexes just above it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017RxHFNsSworLcv23xXk9Hk
Burns down prefer-named-capture-group violations across lib/util/ and
lib/logger/. Same treatment as previous batches: named groups for
values that are read (via $<name> replacement strings, .groups!.<name>,
or destructured from .groups), non-capturing groups where nothing reads
the captured value (e.g. semantic.ts's angular-commit .test()-only
regex). www-authenticate.ts's tokenizer entries each get their own
named group but keep accessing the match generically via match[1],
since a positionally-indexed named group is still readable by index.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017RxHFNsSworLcv23xXk9Hk
Burns down prefer-named-capture-group violations in lib/workers/.
Used groups get names with $<name> replacement strings; unused
wrapper/alternation groups (e.g. semantic-commit-message.ts's optional
scope/issue wrappers, release-notes.ts's date-heading and
horizontal-rule matchers that are only probed with .search()/replaced
wholesale) become non-capturing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017RxHFNsSworLcv23xXk9Hk
Finishes the prefer-named-capture-group burndown: test/, tools/, and
vitest.config.mts. Groups whose value is read get names ($<name>
replacement strings or .groups.<name> access); groups only used via
.test()/.search() or that feed a .match(/…/g) call (whose return value
is the array of whole matches, not captured groups) become
non-capturing.

This is the last remaining slice of pre-existing violations, so the
rule (already enabled at error repo-wide) now passes with zero
findings across the whole codebase.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017RxHFNsSworLcv23xXk9Hk
…fer-named-capture-group

# Conflicts:
#	lib/config/options/env.ts
#	lib/logger/utils.ts
#	lib/modules/datasource/go/base.ts
#	lib/modules/datasource/go/goproxy-parser.ts
#	lib/modules/manager/ansible-galaxy/util.ts
#	lib/modules/manager/github-actions/parse.ts
#	lib/modules/manager/gomod/artifacts.ts
#	lib/modules/manager/helmv3/utils.ts
#	lib/modules/manager/maven-wrapper/artifacts.ts
#	lib/modules/manager/npm/extract/common/dependency.ts
#	lib/modules/manager/npm/update/locked-dependency/yarn-lock/replace.ts
#	lib/modules/manager/nuget/extract.ts
#	lib/modules/platform/bitbucket/index.ts
#	lib/modules/versioning/apk/index.ts
#	lib/modules/versioning/composer/index.ts
#	lib/modules/versioning/conan/range.ts
#	lib/modules/versioning/conda/index.ts
#	lib/modules/versioning/distro.ts
#	lib/modules/versioning/hashicorp/convertor.ts
#	lib/modules/versioning/ruby/index.ts
#	lib/util/markdown.ts
#	lib/workers/repository/model/semantic-commit-message.ts
#	lib/workers/repository/update/pr/changelog/release-notes.ts
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secustor marked this pull request as ready for review August 14, 2026 20:33
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# Conflicts:
#	lib/modules/manager/ant/properties.ts
#	lib/workers/repository/update/pr/changelog/release-notes.ts
#	tools/lint/rules/logger-static-message.ts
New rule from main trips the newly enabled `prefer-named-capture-group` oxlint rule.
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