fix(server): detect GitHub Enterprise remotes that gh is signed in to

[Ygilany]

What Changed

GitHubSourceControlProvider's discovery spec now implements refineUnknownRemote, the hook GitLab already used to claim hosts that hostname matching cannot identify. When a remote is detected as kind: "unknown", gh auth status --json hosts is consulted, and any host gh is signed in to claims that remote as GitHub.

• apps/server/src/sourceControl/GitHubSourceControlProvider.ts — the refiner, +27 lines
• Tests — detection precondition in packages/shared, six refiner cases in GitHubSourceControlProvider.test.ts, one end-to-end resolveHandle case in SourceControlProviderRegistry.test.ts
• One paragraph in docs/user/source-control.md

Nothing changes for hosts that already resolve. refineUnknownRemoteProvider returns early unless the kind is unknown, so github.com and github.* remotes never reach the new code and spawn no extra process.

Why

A GitHub Enterprise Server hostname is chosen by whoever installed it. isGitHubHost matches only github.com or a host carrying github as a dot-separated DNS label, so an install at git.example.edu or code.acme.tld falls through every branch to kind: "unknown". No provider is registered under "unknown", so unsupportedProvider is returned and every operation fails:

Source control provider unknown failed in listChangeRequests:
No unknown source control provider is registered.

The PR panel stays empty and that message repeats on every status refresh, through VcsStatusBroadcaster.refreshStatus → remoteStatus → readRemoteStatus → lookupStatusPr → findLatestPrForHeadContext → listChangeRequests. gh resolves the PR correctly from the same cwd the whole time.

The recovery path for exactly this case already exists: refineUnknownRemoteProvider runs each CLI's auth command and lets a provider claim the host by name. GitLab implements refineUnknownRemote; GitHub did not, so isCliRemoteRefinementSpec filtered the GitHub spec out and gh was never asked. Net effect was that GitLab self-hosted on an arbitrary domain worked while GitHub Enterprise on an arbitrary domain did not — which reads as unintended, since the contracts already model github.com and a GHES install as separate identities under one provider kind.

Everything needed was already in place: authArgs is already ["auth", "status", "--json", "hosts"], and parseGitHubAuthStatus already decodes that JSON per host. No new parsing, no new process invocation, no config surface.

Two details worth a reviewer's attention:

• Matching accepts any authenticated account on the host rather than the active one. gh keeps one active account per host, so gating on active would fail a user with two logins on the same GHES host who has switched to the other.
• The remote host is compared verbatim, port included, mirroring the GitLab refiner. Normalizing the port away would be unsafe here: refinement takes the first provider that claims a remote and GitHub's spec is registered before GitLab's, so a bare-hostname match could beat another CLI's exact host:8443 match on a hostname serving two forges. A GHES install on a non-standard port where gh stores only the bare hostname therefore stays unknown; making that work correctly means giving exact matches precedence inside refineUnknownRemoteProvider, which is a shared-path change and belongs in its own PR.

Verification

vp test run across the four affected source-control test files: 47 tests pass. Targeted lint and typecheck are clean for apps/server and packages/shared.

Also exercised against a real machine with gh signed in to both github.com and a GHES install at once:

remote	result
https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code.git	detected github by hostname; refiner never consulted
https://<ghes-host>/org/repo.git	detected unknown, refined to github / GitHub Self-Hosted
a third host with no gh account	stays null; not claimed

One pre-existing limitation this PR does not address: with two hosts signed in, the Settings → Source Control row still reports a single identity, because parseGitHubAuth collapses the account list through findAuthenticatedGitHubAccount. That is display-only and does not affect which account serves PR lookup. Widening it would mean changing SourceControlProviderAuth in packages/contracts, which belongs in its own PR.

Checklist

• This PR is small and focused
• I explained what changed and why
• I included before/after screenshots for any UI changes — n/a, no UI changes
• I included a video for animation/interaction changes — n/a, no motion or interaction changes

Closes #5087
Closes #6843

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Note

[!NOTE]

Add refineUnknownRemote to GitHubSourceControlProvider for gh-authenticated hosts

• Adds a refinement hook to the GitHub discovery spec that checks gh auth status --json hosts output. When an unknown remote's host (lowercased, exact match including port) has an authenticated gh account, the remote is classified as a GitHub provider named 'GitHub Self-Hosted'.
• Hosts or ports that do not exactly match an authenticated account are left unclassified. Stderr from gh is ignored; only stdout is used.
• Documentation updated to note GitHub Enterprise Server support regardless of hostname, instructing users to sign in via gh auth login --hostname ....
• Risk: exact host:port matching in refineUnknownGitHubRemote means a remote with a port will not be claimed if gh only knows the bare hostname; reviewers should confirm this is acceptable in GitHubSourceControlProvider.ts.

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🗂️ Filtered Issues

apps/server/src/sourceControl/GitHubSourceControlProvider.ts — 0 comments posted, 1 evaluated, 1 filtered

• line 120: refineUnknownGitHubRemote claims a host when any account has state: "success", even if that account is inactive and the active account for that host has failed authentication. gh auth switch documents that its active account configuration is what commands targeting the host use, so subsequent PR operations use the failed active credential and fail after this code has classified the remote as GitHub. Require the active account to be authenticated (or otherwise select the working account) before claiming the remote. [ Already posted ]

docs/user/source-control.md — 0 comments posted, 1 evaluated, 1 filtered

• line 20: The new GHES guidance says signing in with gh auth login --hostname is sufficient, but the new refiner requires gh auth status --json hosts. parseGitHubAuth explicitly identifies --json as unavailable before gh 2.81.0, so users of an older CLI can log in exactly as documented yet their remote remains unknown. State the minimum gh version or update requirement in this paragraph. [ Out of scope (post-validation triage) ]

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Note

Low Risk
Scoped to unknown-remote refinement using existing gh auth status output; known GitHub.com remotes are unchanged. Port/bare-hostname mismatch is an intentional edge case left unclaimed.

Overview
GitHub Enterprise remotes on custom hostnames (e.g. git.example.edu) no longer stay unknown and break PR/source-control flows when gh is authenticated for that host. GitHubSourceControlProvider now implements refineUnknownRemote, mirroring GitLab: for kind: "unknown" remotes it reads gh auth status --json hosts and, if any authenticated account’s host matches the remote name exactly (lowercased, port included), reclassifies the remote as github with label GitHub Self-Hosted and the existing baseUrl.

Refinement does not claim a remote when gh has no valid account for that host, when only a failed account exists, or when the remote includes a port but gh only lists the bare hostname (avoids beating another forge’s exact host:port match). stderr from gh is ignored for matching, consistent with auth parsing.

Tests cover the refiner, registry resolveHandle for GHES, and shared detection leaving arbitrary enterprise hosts unknown until refinement. User docs note gh auth login --hostname … for GHES.

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• New Features
  • Recognizes GitHub Enterprise Server projects on custom hosts after you sign in to that host with the GitHub CLI.
• Documentation
  • Added guidance for signing in to GitHub Enterprise Server.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Unknown enterprise hosts remain classified as unknown by shared detection. GitHub discovery now matches those hosts against authenticated GitHub CLI accounts and can return a GitHub Self-Hosted provider.

Changes

GitHub Enterprise remote recognition

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Unknown-host refinement packages/shared/src/sourceControl.test.ts, apps/server/src/sourceControl/GitHubSourceControlProvider.ts, apps/server/src/sourceControl/GitHubSourceControlProvider.test.ts	The shared detector test verifies that an unrecognized enterprise hostname remains unknown. GitHub discovery matches the remote host, including its port, against authenticated accounts and returns a GitHub Self-Hosted provider on a match. Tests cover account state, host mismatch, ports, and stderr warnings.
Provider resolution and documentation apps/server/src/sourceControl/SourceControlProviderRegistry.test.ts, docs/user/source-control.md	A registry test verifies that an enterprise remote resolves to the GitHub provider. The guide documents signing in to GitHub Enterprise Server with gh auth login --hostname.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SourceControlProviderRegistry
  participant GitHubSourceControlProvider
  participant GitHubCLI
  SourceControlProviderRegistry->>GitHubSourceControlProvider: Refine unknown remote
  GitHubSourceControlProvider->>GitHubCLI: Read auth status JSON
  GitHubCLI-->>GitHubSourceControlProvider: Authenticated hosts
  GitHubSourceControlProvider-->>SourceControlProviderRegistry: GitHub Self-Hosted provider or null

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Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 90c0d

In a multi-account setup, an enterprise remote may be recognized as GitHub while its operations fail until the active account is switched. Fix the account check before merging, or accept this bounded limitation.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check	⚠️ Warning	[#5087] The new refineUnknownGitHubRemote claims an unknown remote when gh auth status --json hosts reports an authenticated account for the exact host. Tests cover host matching, account state, a…	Implement per-host discovery and selection for authenticated enterprise hosts, and pass the selected host to repo-less gh operations. Alternatively, revise #5087 to separate these requirements from the remote-refinement change.
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: 1…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: detecting GitHub Enterprise remotes when gh is authenticated for the host.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains what changed and why, includes verification details, and completes the checklist. It also states that there are no UI changes, so omitting a separate UI Changes section is app…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The provider refinement, registry and unit tests, shared remote-detection test, and GHES documentation support the enterprise-host detection objective in #5087. The reviewed changes show no unrelated …

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Explanation

[#5087] The new refineUnknownGitHubRemote claims an unknown remote when gh auth status --json hosts reports an authenticated account for the exact host. Tests cover host matching, account state, and ports, and the registry test verifies routing to GitHub. The issue also requires discovery of multiple authenticated enterprise hosts as separate provider entries and identifies repo-less gh operations that need a selected enterprise host. This PR keeps the provider kind as github and adds no per-host discovery or host selection for repo-less operations.

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Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 90c0d40

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — The PR makes a narrowly scoped correction to source-control detection for authenticated GitHub Enterprise hosts, reusing the existing GitHub provider and adding focused coverage. Existing recognized remotes are unchanged, and the added behavior is limited to exact host matches.

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[Ygilany]

Context: this implements the detection half of #6843. That discussion notes refineUnknownRemote already covers "claim an unclassifiable hostname" — GitHub was the one CLI spec that never implemented it, so GHES remotes fell through to the unknown stub and failed every PR operation with No unknown source control provider is registered.

Deliberately not the full proposal there: no separate provider kind and no per-host discovery rows, so the Source Control settings row still shows a single GitHub identity. #6052 covers that larger design. This is just the small fix that makes PR lookup work on an enterprise host today, and it should compose with whatever you decide there.

No UI changes. Of the 216 added lines, 27 are production code — the rest are tests pinning the behavior in both directions: a host gh is signed in to gets claimed, and a bare-hostname entry does not claim a :8443 remote on the same host.

Thanks for building this in the open. Happy to close it if you'd rather take the bigger change.

[Ygilany]

@juliusmarminge @t3dotgg I understand you folks are not necessarily accepting PRs. I would appreciate if you can take a look at this. It corrects a case where someone may be logged into multiple github accounts via gh: github.com, and self-hosted GHES. It doesn't change UI and only further refines unknown unknown GitHub remotes.

The PR is big mostly because of added tests - the fix is pretty small

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