[juliusmarminge]

Problem

When glab is signed in only to a self-hosted GitLab and its default host is left at gitlab.com, Add project → GitLab repository → group/project fails with "Repository lookup failed". The lookup runs glab api projects/<path> from the server's working directory, which has no GitLab remote, so glab sends it to gitlab.com. Publishing a repository to GitLab has the same problem. Reproduced on main 886d8f6 against a stub self-hosted GitLab (see Verification).

Change

Before a repository lookup or publish, GitLabCli runs glab auth status (5 s timeout). It points glab at a host only when all of these hold:

• One host signed in: exactly one host is signed in.
• No explicit host: the server's environment does not already set GITLAB_HOST, GL_HOST or GITLAB_URI.
• No known remote: no remote in the working directory, fetch or push URL, is on gitlab.com or a host glab is configured for. Without such a remote glab would fall back to its default host.

In that case the glab child process gets GITLAB_HOST=<that host>. In every other case, including a failed or timed-out probe, the command runs exactly as on main.

• Why GITLAB_HOST and not --hostname: glab 1.124 rejects a host with a port as --hostname, but accepts it in GITLAB_HOST.
• Host spelling: the host is passed exactly as glab auth status printed it, because glab matches its config keys case-sensitively. parseGitLabAuthStatusHosts no longer lowercases; its two existing callers lowercase where they compare.
• Shared remote parsing: the remote check uses the provider's existing remote-host parsing, which handles userless SCP remotes. It now also accepts a trailing slash.

Out of scope:

• Full-URL input (https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/7849 / https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/20275).
• The generic error text (https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/22342).
• A picker for several signed-in hosts.

Scope and approval

Fixes #26606

Triaged via the automated issue flow.

Verification

• Focused tests in packages/source-control-gitlab/src/server/GitLabCli.test.ts: vp test run src/server/ gives 126 passed (9 files).
  • The red test fails on main with expected 'api projects/team%2Fapp' to contain '--hostname …' (later rewritten to assert the env), and passes with the fix.
  • It covers: a single signed-in host with a port and mixed case; an explicit GITLAB_HOST; several signed-in hosts; a gitlab.com remote in the four forms (with a user, userless SCP, trailing slash, push URL only); publish passing the host on both API calls; and an auth-status timeout falling back to the original command.
  • Each remote case was checked red by reverting its part of the fix.
• vp run check:changed passed: format, lint, knip, typecheck, and tests next to the changes.
• Real glab 1.124 against a stub self-hosted GitLab, using a synthetic config, a stub server and a transcript:
  • glab config get host prints gitlab.com and only gitlab.selfhosted.test is signed in, as in the report.
  • Plain glab api projects/team%2Fapp gets a 404 from gitlab.com.
  • With GITLAB_HOST set, the same call reaches the self-hosted host.
  • Files: stub server, config without a default host, reporter-shaped config.
• Real app: web dev server on a fresh database, Add project → GitLab repository → team/app. The server-only change shows up as the lookup result.

Before (main 886d8f6, no default host)	Control (main 886d8f6, default host = self-hosted)	After (b91ef48, reporter's config host: gitlab.com)

• The before and control runs used a config with no default host. On main, glab falls back to gitlab.com either way.
• The last commit, the push-URL and trailing-slash remote checks, came after the app capture and is covered by the unit tests above.
• Not checked:
  • glab versions other than 1.124.
  • A live self-hosted GitLab instance.
  • The macOS desktop app that the reporter used. The fix is server-side only, so I ran it on Linux.

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Approvability

Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Repository lookup and creation now implicitly target the sole signed-in GitLab host when neither configuration nor a recognized remote selects one. Human review is required to confirm this changed default, particularly the destination of project-creation requests.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.5 KiB	21.5 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.9 KiB	21.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 729f675 · PR result: 69223d9 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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GitLab CLI repository operations now infer the sole signed-in host when no host variable is set and no known GitLab remote selects a host. Lookup retries without the inferred host after a failed host-specific request. Host parsing and authenticated-host matching also handle casing consistently.

Changes: GitLab host selection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Host parsing and casing packages/source-control-gitlab/src/server/GitLabCli.ts, packages/source-control-gitlab/src/server/GitLabSourceControlProvider.ts, packages/source-control-gitlab/src/server/gitLabAuthStatus.ts	Authenticated host comparisons ignore casing. Parsed auth-status hosts retain their casing. Unknown-remote parsing uses the GitLab CLI parser.
Signed-in host selection packages/source-control-gitlab/src/server/GitLabCli.ts, packages/source-control-gitlab/src/server/GitLabCli.test.ts	When no host variable is set, the CLI checks auth status and remote fetch and push URLs before selecting a host. Tests cover timeouts, explicit hosts, multiple signed-in hosts, and remotes that determine the host.
Repository API host integration packages/source-control-gitlab/src/server/GitLabCli.ts, packages/source-control-gitlab/src/server/GitLabCli.test.ts	Repository lookup, namespace lookup, and project creation use the inferred host when available. Lookup retries without that host if the host-specific request fails.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitLabCli
  participant glab
  participant GitService
  participant ProcessExecution
  GitLabCli->>glab: Check auth status with a 5-second timeout
  glab-->>GitLabCli: Return authenticated hosts
  GitLabCli->>GitService: Inspect remote fetch and push URLs
  GitService-->>GitLabCli: Return remote URLs
  GitLabCli->>ProcessExecution: Run repository API command with inferred environment
  ProcessExecution-->>GitLabCli: Return result or request error
  GitLabCli->>ProcessExecution: Retry lookup without inferred environment after failure

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Possibly related issues

• [Bug]: GitLab unknown-remote probe needs the network: glab auth status hangs when a configured host is offline (VPN), stalling vcs.refreshStatus for 65s #17209 — The auth-status check now has a 5-second timeout. The separate remote-discovery path described in the issue remains unchanged.

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Merge Risk: Low · previous review 4da5e

With only a self-hosted GitLab signed in, a rate-limit or authentication failure on that host can fall back to gitlab.com. The lookup may then return a different repository's clone URL, or an error that hides the real cause. The main path works. Narrowing which failures trigger the fallback would reduce this risk.

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Description check		The description includes all required sections: Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification. It explains the failure, implementation, scope, linked issue, focused tests, real-app verificatio…
Linked Issues check		Issue #26606 requires bare repository lookup on the only signed-in self-hosted GitLab host. GitLabCli probes glab auth status with a 5-second timeout, selects one authenticated host, respects `GIT…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes stay connected to issue #26606. Host discovery, shared remote parsing, host-case handling, lookup fallback, repository creation, and tests support reliable GitLab host selection. The chang…

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Issue #26606 requires bare repository lookup on the only signed-in self-hosted GitLab host. GitLabCli probes glab auth status with a 5-second timeout, selects one authenticated host, respects GITLAB_HOST, GITLAB_URI, and GL_HOST, checks fetch and push remotes, and passes the printed host through GITLAB_HOST. Repository lookup and creation use this selection. Tests cover host spelling, timeout fallback, remotes, multiple hosts, explicit configuration, lookup fallback, and publishing.

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The changes stay connected to issue #26606. Host discovery, shared remote parsing, host-case handling, lookup fallback, repository creation, and tests support reliable GitLab host selection. The changes do not add full-URL input, a multiple-host picker, or generic error-text changes.

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The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:

someone else pushed to fix/issue-26606 (head is now 9201451); the pipeline does not build on commits it did not review

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🟠 High server/GitLabCli.ts:604

A timeout, 429, or 5xx from the self-hosted lookup can make getRepositoryCloneUrls return clone URLs for an unrelated public gitlab.com/team/app, which prepareClone then uses to clone the wrong repository. Effect.catch(() => lookup()) retries every failure without the signed-in host, so restrict this fallback to the intended not-found case and propagate transient and authentication errors.

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In file @packages/source-control-gitlab/src/server/GitLabCli.ts around line 604:

A timeout, 429, or 5xx from the self-hosted lookup can make `getRepositoryCloneUrls` return clone URLs for an unrelated public `gitlab.com/team/app`, which `prepareClone` then uses to clone the wrong repository. `Effect.catch(() => lookup())` retries every failure without the signed-in host, so restrict this fallback to the intended not-found case and propagate transient and authentication errors.

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Keep rate-limit and authentication failures on the inferred host.

If the inferred host returns a rate limit or authentication error, this catch retries the same repository path on glab’s default host. When that host has a project with the same path, lookup can return the wrong clone URL. When it does not, the fallback error hides the original failure. Limit cross-host fallback to a failure that supports trying another host, and preserve other errors. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Update the catch around lookup(env) so it retries lookup() only for failures that support trying another host; preserve and propagate rate-limit, authentication, and other non-fallback errors from the inferred host. Reuse the existing error classification rather than treating every failure as eligible for cross-host fallback.

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[juliusmarminge]

The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:

in the real app the problem is still there, and the rework changed nothing:

No code change and nothing pushed: the reported failure did not reproduce, and the fix works in the real app. Setup: dev server from the branch head, GITLAB_HOST/GL_HOST/GITLAB_URI unset, an isolated glab config keeping gitlab.com as the default host (no token) and signed in only to a stand-in GitLab API over plain HTTP on 127.0.0.1:18929, lookup run from the server's own checkout (github.com remote only). Driven through Add project > GitLab repository > group/project > Lookup in the web app, the lookup resolved http://127.0.0.1:18929/group/project and moved to the clone-destination step. Main's behaviour with the same config (glab api with no host override) goes to gitlab.com and gets 404 Project Not Found, so the setup tells main and the fix apart. Code checks: VcsProcess and ProcessRunner pass input.env on top of the inherited environment (extendEnv), so the GITLAB_HOST override keeps the server environment, including GLAB_CONFIG_DIR; the scenarios harness also starts the server with the full host environment. Likely cause of the report: on this VM glab's default config is signed in to gitlab.com, so an isolated config built from it that kept the gitlab.com token makes two signed-in hosts, and the fix deliberately does not choose between them (the reported issue is about the only signed-in host). That would explain failing on both commits, but I could not confirm it because the run's actual config was not available. A re-run with a config holding no gitlab.com token should pass on the fix and fail on main. My run used a stand-in API server with the real glab binary rather than a GitLab CE container.

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