feat(extension): add GitHub commit URL provider for extension sources #13836
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Introduce a new URL provider for GitHub commit archives, enabling installation from specific commit hashes.
Update installation tests to include these new commit URLs.
To date, half of extensions (159 / 283) use tags/releases. For the others, tracing properly the state of the extension once installed is impossible for now (#13764 will help with this).
The goal of this PR is to allow to pin an extension using commit hash in addition to current support to tags and branches.
Still work in progress as not fully tested and not totally sure how it will behave with: