Ghub works but forge doesn't for self-hosted gitlab instance

[theottm]

Hello,

When running f n in Magit status buffer I get

Cannot determine forge repository.  git@gitlab.myinstance.xyz:myproject/myproject.git isn’t a forge url

Here are the relevant local git variables:

gitlab.myinstance.xyz/api/v4.user=teddd
gitlab.host=myinstance.xyz/api/v4
remote.origin.url=git@gitlab.myinstance.xyz:myproject/myproject.git

I have no global git variables relative to any forge.

Despite forge not working, I am able to interact with the api of gitlab with ghub using

(ghub-request "GET" "/user" nil
              :forge 'gitlab
              :host "gitlab.myinstance.xyz/api/v4"
              :username "teddd"
              :auth 'ghub)

I have a line for both users teddd^forge and teddd^ghub in .authinfo.

It seems like forge is not able to use the information of git config. Did I miss something? I also tried to add git variable forge.remote=myinstance.xyz/api/v4 with no success.

Cheers,

Théo

[tarsius]

Sounds like you didn't add the host to forge-alist.

[theottm]

Worked, thanks.

[zzantares]

is this in the manual? I found about forge-alist after searching around in gh issues; also I wonder, there's forge-add-repository any reason why we couldn't store forges as well and have forge-add so we don't have to add it to forge-alist manually?

Thanks.

[tarsius]

It was mentioned in the relevant places, but I have now copied the docstring into the manual and added an additional cross-reference (adce847), to make it less likely that it is overlooked.