rt.ignoredMrs: keep deploy-branch noise out of project sync, excluded on the GitLab request

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adds rt.ignoredMrs, a per-repo setting for MRs the daemon should never track: deploy/environment branches that bots merge into all day. on a large project those MRs are ~20% of all traffic and are exactly the ones GitLab takes 20-30s per MR to evaluate approvals on (see #375).

// repos.<host/path> in any store (team.repo is the natural home)
"rt.ignoredMrs": { "targetBranches": ["deployments/*"], "authors": ["some-bot"] }

What changed

Setting and matcher (lib/daemon/ignored-mrs.ts)

• rt.ignoredMrs registry row: repo-scoped, deep merge (a user.repo value overrides one field and keeps the team's other), no default
• readIgnoredMrs reads it with the raw host/path identity; unset, malformed, unreadable, or a path-kind repo ignore nothing
• isIgnoredMr: target branch matches a glob (Bun.Glob) or the author is listed
• expandTargetBranches + gitlabBranchSearch: each glob's literal prefix goes through GitLab's starts-with branch search, then the glob filters the names; cached per repo for an hour, and a failed search excludes nothing that cycle rather than failing the sync

On the request (lib/daemon/project-sync.ts)

• every default read passes the expanded names as glance 0.26.0's excludeTargetBranches: opened list + merged/closed index (delta), unscoped and scoped deep, the codeowner rules sweep, and both backfills
• those reads now come from one defaultReads factory instead of three copies of the same closures; the test seam deltaContext becomes repoContext, plus excludedTargets

Backstop (lib/daemon/project-mrs-store.ts)

• createProjectMRs(db, { ignoreFor }): fullSync, applyDelta and upsert never store a matching MR, so the events path, top-up and hydration are covered too
• applyDelta also removes stored matches, so turning the setting on takes effect on the next delta instead of the next daily deep; authors is enforced only here, since GitLab can exclude one author per request at most

Also

• bumps @mattstack/glance to 0.26.0
• ignored-mrs.ts imports the daemon logger on first warning (the busy.ts pattern): the store imports it and the lib/state barrel imports the store, and that barrel must create no file on import
• registry tests count the new migrated key

Verification

• new ignored-mrs.test.ts (14), store tests (4), sync wiring tests (7, one per default read); tsc --noEmit clean
• local bun run test 8759 pass; the 13 failures are all rt-tray/Tests/stub-rt/stub.test.ts spawning bun off a PATH this machine's mise shims don't provide. local e2e 132 pass; the 1 failure is the plugin scaffold test's bunx tsc hitting the same broken node shim. CI is the gate for both
• live, read-only against a large GitLab project: deployments/* expands to 53 branches in 2.7s; a 2-day delta returns 6 MRs into those branches without the exclusion and 0 with it

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added repository-level rules to ignore merge requests by target-branch pattern or author.
  • Ignored merge requests are excluded from synchronization and removed from stored results when they match the rules.
  • Target-branch patterns are expanded across GitLab branches and cached for faster subsequent syncs.

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Walkthrough

The change adds repository-scoped rules to ignore merge requests by author or target branch. Sync reads exclude matching target branches, and the MR store skips ignored entries and removes stored entries that become ignored.

Changes

Ignored merge-request handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Ignored-MR settings and matching packages/rt-client/src/settings/registry-defs.ts, packages/rt-client/src/settings/__tests__/registry.test.ts, lib/daemon/ignored-mrs.ts, lib/daemon/__tests__/ignored-mrs.test.ts, package.json	The registry adds rt.ignoredMrs as a repo-scoped setting. Rule loading filters invalid values, and matching checks author names and target-branch globs.
Target-branch expansion and caching lib/daemon/ignored-mrs.ts, lib/daemon/__tests__/ignored-mrs.test.ts	Wildcard rules expand through paginated GitLab branch searches. Successful expansions are cached per repository and refreshed when they expire or the globs change.
Sync query exclusions lib/daemon/project-sync.ts, lib/daemon/__tests__/project-sync.test.ts	Default sync reads apply expanded target-branch exclusions to project, author, approval-rule, and delta queries.
MR store filtering and pruning lib/daemon/project-mrs-store.ts, lib/daemon/__tests__/project-mrs-store.test.ts	The store skips ignored MRs during upserts and sync processing. Full sync and delta processing remove stored ignored MRs; delta persistence also removes section-tag rows.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ProjectSync
  participant readIgnoredMrs
  participant ExcludedTargetsCache
  participant gitlabBranchSearch
  participant GitLabProvider
  participant GitLabMRQueries
  ProjectSync->>readIgnoredMrs: Load repository target-branch globs
  ProjectSync->>ExcludedTargetsCache: Resolve excluded target branches
  ExcludedTargetsCache->>gitlabBranchSearch: Search glob prefixes
  gitlabBranchSearch->>GitLabProvider: Request paginated branch results
  GitLabProvider-->>gitlabBranchSearch: Return branch names
  gitlabBranchSearch-->>ExcludedTargetsCache: Return matching branch names
  ExcludedTargetsCache-->>ProjectSync: Return excluded branches
  ProjectSync->>GitLabMRQueries: Fetch results with target-branch exclusions

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1f3c7

This change adds a per-repository setting that excludes merge requests by target-branch glob or author. It filters them from sync queries and prunes them from the local MR store. No correctness or data-integrity defect was found. One operational step remains: rebuild packages/rt-client so that mr-board, gitq and the console recognize the new rt.ignoredMrs setting. Without the rebuild, those consumers keep the previous settings registry and treat the key as unknown. The change is mergeable once that rebuild is done.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the rt.ignoredMrs setting and its primary purpose: excluding deploy-branch merge requests from project sync and GitLab requests.
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packages/rt-client/src/settings/__tests__/registry.test.ts (1)

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Rebuild packages/rt-client after this registry change.

This PR changes the rt-client source because it adds rt.ignoredMrs to REGISTRY. file: consumers (mr-board, gitq, the console) copy dist/ verbatim at install time. If dist/ is not rebuilt, those consumers keep the previous registry, and rt.ignoredMrs is an unknown key for them. Run bun run build in packages/rt-client before you install the consumers.

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In `@packages/rt-client/src/settings/__tests__/registry.test.ts` around lines 54 -
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the new rt.ignoredMrs entry in REGISTRY, keeping the published package registry
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In `@packages/rt-client/src/settings/__tests__/registry.test.ts`:
- Around line 54-59: Update the generated dist artifacts for packages/rt-client
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📒 Files selected for processing (9)

• lib/daemon/__tests__/ignored-mrs.test.ts
• lib/daemon/__tests__/project-mrs-store.test.ts
• lib/daemon/__tests__/project-sync.test.ts
• lib/daemon/ignored-mrs.ts
• lib/daemon/project-mrs-store.ts
• lib/daemon/project-sync.ts
• package.json
• packages/rt-client/src/settings/__tests__/registry.test.ts
• packages/rt-client/src/settings/registry-defs.ts

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