Description of problem:

 
Customer is not able to create a workspace which has oauth configuration in their private gitlab instance
 
Making the workspace creation to fail in cloning the code into vscode
 

Prerequisites (if any, like setup, operators/versions):

Steps to Reproduce

1. Installed Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.4 in OCP 4.10
 
2. Configured oauth gitlab as per documentation: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openshift_dev_spaces/3.4/html/administration_guide/configuring-devspaces#configuring-oauth-2-for-gitlab
 
3. Created a workspace pointing to a private instance of gitlab with a private repository
 
4. IDE vscode opens with a message: Workspace does not exist. Please select another workspace to open.
 
5. Using an empty workspace and cloning the gitlab repo from the console works by providing user credentials.
 
6. devworkspace-merged-git-credentials secret in user's namespace is empty, no token information available despites the authorization gitlab page showed up.

Actual results:

IDE doesn't open when pointing to a private gitlab repo with oauth configured

Expected results:

IDE to open with code cloned from private gitlab repo configured with oauth

Reproducibility (Always/Intermittent/Only Once):

Always in customer's environment
Locally tested and worked in a lab (not customer)

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