Show latest commit message for branch in terminal suggest widget details view

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Summary: Show Latest Commit Message for Branches in Terminal Suggest Widget

This PR implements the feature request from issue #256713 to display commit details for branches in the terminal suggest widget.

✅ Implementation Complete

Changes Made:

1. ✅ Modified localBranches, remoteLocalBranches, and localOrRemoteBranches generators
2. ✅ Updated git command to use git for-each-ref with custom format
3. ✅ Parse commit information: author, hash, subject, and relative time
4. ✅ Display as: timeAgo • author • hash • message
5. ✅ Added comprehensive unit tests (6 test cases)
6. ✅ Refactored to use shared constant for common git arguments
7. ✅ All code compiles with 0 errors

Example Output:

main
2 days ago • Rob Lourens • ae36466 • Fix response codeblock in debug view

feature/test  
1 week ago • Peng Lyu • 9a71ee6 • [poc] thinking for boyk

Technical Details:

• Uses git for-each-ref with format: %(refname:short)|%(authorname)|%(objectname:short)|%(subject)|%(committerdate:relative)
• Shared constant gitBranchForEachRefArgs eliminates repetition
• Pipe-delimited parsing for structured data
• Backward compatible fallback parsing
• Proper handling of remote branches
• Efficient sorting by commit date

Testing:

• ✅ 6 unit tests covering various scenarios
• ✅ All tests pass compilation
• ✅ Code refactored to reduce duplication

Files Modified:

• extensions/terminal-suggest/src/completions/git.ts - Core implementation

This implementation matches the behavior shown in the issue screenshots and provides users with helpful context about branches when using git completions in the terminal.

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Pull Request Overview

This PR enhances the terminal suggest widget to display rich commit information for git branches. When users select branches in terminal completions, they now see the latest commit's author, hash, message, and relative timestamp instead of just the branch name.

Key changes:

• Modified git commands from git branch to git for-each-ref to retrieve structured commit metadata
• Enhanced branch completion parser to extract and format commit details (author, hash, subject, relative time)
• Added comprehensive unit tests for the new parsing logic

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

File	Description
extensions/terminal-suggest/src/completions/git.ts	Updated git commands to use for-each-ref with custom format, enhanced postProcessBranches to parse pipe-delimited commit metadata
extensions/terminal-suggest/src/test/completions/git-branch.test.ts	Added unit tests covering normal parsing, remote branches, HEAD filtering, empty input, error handling, and deduplication

[Tyriar]

A lot of repetition here, could use a const with common parts?

[meganrogge]

@copilot A lot of repetition here, could use a const with common parts

[Copilot]

Refactored to use a shared constant gitBranchForEachRefArgs for the common git command arguments and format string. This eliminates the repetition across localBranches, remoteLocalBranches, and localOrRemoteBranches generators.

Changes in commit 59a26f6.