fix(server): self-hosted GitLab projects resolve bare pull request numbers

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Problem

On a self-hosted GitLab whose host name doesn't contain "gitlab", "Link pull request" rejects #1 with "Paste a full URL; this project's host has no known pull request URL." The project's repositoryIdentity.provider stays unknown, so the dialog can't build a merge request URL. Full URLs work.

Providers can settle an unknown identity through their refineRepositoryIdentity hook, but GitLab had none. GitLab's discovery also matches glab auth status hosts against the provider name, so an unknown remote has to be named by its real host to match.

Change

• GitLabSourceControlProvider gets a refineRepositoryIdentity hook. For an unknown identity, it resolves the remote's context with the provider named by its host. When a glab login for that host turns it into gitlab, the identity records provider: "gitlab", and the dialog builds /-/merge_requests/N URLs through the existing changeRequestUrlFor.
• SCP remotes with no user (host:group/project.git, host:/group/project.git) aren't detected by the shared remote parser, so the hook reads their host itself.
• normalizeGitRemoteUrl now gives those remotes a host-based key (host/group/project) instead of keeping the colon, which would break the URL. A one-letter "host" is still treated as a Windows drive path.

Host-name detection is unchanged. An unknown host only becomes GitLab when glab is signed in to it, and otherwise bare numbers are still refused. Identities with a known provider are left alone. GitHub Enterprise hosts without "github" in the name are a separate case and are left out.

Scope and approval

Fixes #15390. It's labeled bug and was triaged here. The triage named this as the narrowest option but left the direction to a maintainer, so treat this as a proposal for the GitLab case. I'm happy to change direction.

Verification

• A new test in GitLabSourceControlProvider.test.ts checks that HTTPS, git@host: and user-less SCP remotes are looked up by their host and become gitlab when served. An unserved host stays unknown, and a GitHub identity is never looked up.
• New cases in git.test.ts cover the user-less and leading-slash SCP keys and the Windows drive path.
• vp test run passes on both files. Lint and typecheck are clean on the changed packages.
• In a running client, on a project hosted at codefactory.believe.tech with glab signed in, linking #1 resolved to https://codefactory.believe.tech/idp/developer-control-plane/asset-referential/asset-referential/-/merge_requests/1 with no error.

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📝 Walkthrough

The GitLab provider now refines eligible unknown repository identities by resolving the remote host. It sets the provider to GitLab when that host resolves to GitLab. Remote URL normalization now handles additional SCP-style forms.

Changes: Repository identity refinement

Layer / File(s)	Summary
SCP-style remote normalization packages/shared/src/git.ts, packages/shared/src/git.test.ts	Normalization accepts SCP-style remotes with or without a username and with an optional leading slash. Tests cover these formats, Windows drive paths, and single-character SSH hosts.
Identity refinement and resolver wiring packages/source-control-gitlab/src/server/GitLabSourceControlProvider.ts, packages/source-control-gitlab/src/server/GitLabSourceControlProvider.test.ts	The provider resolves eligible unknown identities using the inferred remote provider and repository context. It assigns GitLab only when resolution identifies GitLab. Tests cover HTTPS and SSH formats, non-GitLab hosts, and identities already assigned to another provider.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 99ef2

A narrow Windows configuration can mistake a local path for a GitLab remote and produce incorrect merge-request links. The issue is bounded, but should be corrected or accepted before relying on that workflow.

### Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 99ef2

The change affects 2 systems.

Changed systems: packages/shared, packages/source-control-gitlab

Architecture concerns
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Review details

Systems and components

• observed — packages/shared (library) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — packages/source-control-gitlab (library) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in packages/source-control-gitlab/src/server/GitLabSourceControlProvider.test.ts: Adds coverage for refining unknown GitLab-served identities across HTTPS and SSH remote formats. The test verifies the host is used for resolution, assigns the GitLab provider when served, preserves an identity when the host resolves to another provider, and leaves an already GitHub-owned identity unchanged without resolving it.
• observed — Modified behavior in packages/source-control-gitlab/src/server/GitLabSourceControlProvider.ts: Imports remote-URL provider detection for use in repository identity refinement.
• observed — Modified behavior in packages/source-control-gitlab/src/server/GitLabSourceControlProvider.ts: Adds remote-provider inference for unknown remotes, including SCP-style remotes without a user. Refinement runs only when the identity has a root path and its provider is absent or "unknown"; it resolves the inferred provider with the repository context and sets the identity provider to "gitlab" only if resolution identifies GitLab. Otherwise, it preserves the identity.
• observed — Modified behavior in packages/source-control-gitlab/src/server/GitLabSourceControlProvider.ts: Registers refineRepositoryIdentity on the GitLab provider implementation.

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Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: resolving bare pull request numbers for self-hosted GitLab projects.
Description check		The description includes all required sections. It explains the problem, implementation, scope, issue and triage references, focused tests, manual verification, and agent details. The scope section do…
Linked Issues check		Issue [#15390] requires bare merge-request numbers to resolve for a self-hosted GitLab host when glab is authenticated to that host. refineRepositoryIdentity derives the remote host, resolves that…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes support issue [#15390]. The host-based normalizeGitRemoteUrl keys and related tests enable the required remote forms. The GitLab refinement and discovery changes implement the required p…

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Verdict: Approved at bbe3166

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a narrowly scoped bug fix that extends existing repository identity resolution to self-hosted GitLab hosts and userless SCP remotes while preserving existing paths. The production changes are localized and supported by targeted tests, with no product-default, deployment, schema, or static-analysis configuration impact.

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🟡 Minor · Accept a leading slash in SCP-style remotes. · GitLabSourceControlProvider.ts:101-109

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Accept a leading slash in SCP-style remotes.

The optional-user regex still does not match code.example.test:/team/repo.git because its path group cannot start with /. The normalized fallback remains code.example.test:/team/repo, so the canonical key keeps the colon and can produce a malformed merge-request URL. Make the user and leading slash optional while keeping the captured path slash-free.

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-  const scpStyleHostAndPath = /^[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+@([^:/\s]+):([^/\s]+(?:\/[^/\s]+)+)$/i.exec(
+  const scpStyleHostAndPath = /^(?:[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+@)?([^:/\s]+):\/?([^/\s]+(?:\/[^/\s]+)+)$/i.exec(
     normalized,
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Update the SCP-style remote parsing used by unknownRemoteProvider so it accepts
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🟡 Minor · Exclude Windows drive-letter paths from the fallback… · GitLabSourceControlProvider.ts:101-109

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Exclude Windows drive-letter paths from the fallback host parser.

When glab has an authenticated host named c, C:/repos/project is treated as an unknown remote for host c. GitLab refinement then changes the repository identity to gitlab, so the local path enters GitLab-specific merge-request URL generation. Keep one-character drive prefixes out of this fallback.

Suggested fix

-  const host = /^([^@:/]+):.+/.exec(remoteUrl.trim())?.[1]?.toLowerCase();
+  const host = /^([^@:/\s]{2,}):.+/.exec(remoteUrl.trim())?.[1]?.toLowerCase();

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Update unknownRemoteProvider’s fallback host parser to reject one-character
prefixes before a colon, so Windows drive-letter paths such as C:/repos/project
are not treated as unknown remote hosts. Preserve host detection for valid
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