Discovery matched a git remote's host against the instance URL's host, so
a server answering SSH on a different name than its web UI resolved to
nothing — and said so only in a debug log.
Resolution now runs in three stages. A remote host is matched directly,
then against configured aliases, and failing both the instances are asked
for the repository: Gitea publishes its SSH hostname in a repository's
ssh_url, so the right instance identifies itself. What that turns up is
saved as a host alias, so later repositories on the same host resolve
with no lookup at all, and the mapping is visible and editable rather
than hidden. Each unknown host is probed at most once per session.
When nothing resolves the sidebar now names the unmatched host and offers
Add Host Alias, instead of showing an empty section.
Aliases can also be written by hand as "remote-host = instance URL",
accepting =, -> and =>, ignoring ports, and skipping # comments. List
preferences now merge workspace entries onto global ones rather than
letting an empty global array mask them.
Adds Tests/host-aliases.test.js covering both directions: unmatched hosts
reported and nothing persisted, a hand-written alias, detection from
ssh_url, and a later repository resolving from the stored alias without a
probe. 131 checks across three suites.
Also adds CLAUDE.md, and .gitea/workflows/ci.yml running the suites,
script syntax checks, manifest validation, and a generated-image check.
Tools/make-icons.py gains --check, which compares decompressed pixels so
a differing zlib version cannot fail it spuriously.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MQuusXgZC2dzwpJJ1qhtti
The repository was a bare Nova scaffold. This builds it out to match the
capabilities of the official Gitea VS Code extension.
Sidebar sections:
- Current Branch: pull requests and workflow runs for the checked-out
branch, with a current/all/pinned branch filter
- Workflows: runs grouped by workflow file, expanding into jobs, steps,
and artifacts
- Pull Requests: open pull requests across repositories, expanding into
reviews, review comments, and changed files
- Settings: per-instance connection state, plus repository Actions
secrets and variables
Commands cover run control (re-run, re-run failed jobs, re-run a job,
cancel), job logs, artifact download/reveal/open, pull request overview,
diff, checkout, creation, merge and close, the full review cycle, and
secret and variable management. Multiple instances are supported, routed
by git remote host, with tokens held per instance in the Keychain.
Nova exposes no webview, diff editor, editor decorations, or extension
status bar, so four features are shaped differently from the VS Code
original: the pull request timeline renders as Markdown, diffs open as
unified .diff documents, review comments are published through an
IssueCollection so they appear in the gutter and the Issues sidebar, and
a failed run posts a notification. OAuth and insecureSkipVerify have no
Nova equivalent and are omitted. README.md records all of this.
Endpoints were taken from Gitea's published swagger.v1.json. Servers
predating the workflow runs API fall back to /actions/tasks.
Tests/ runs the extension's real code under Node against a stubbed Nova
runtime and a canned Gitea instance: 88 checks, no install step and no
network. Images are generated by Tools/make-icons.py.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MQuusXgZC2dzwpJJ1qhtti
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