Wikimedia GitLab repos created by Striker mirrored to Wikimedia Phabricator Diffusion (thanks to T317345: Mirror Striker managed GitLab repos in Diffusion) show empty in Diffusion:
This is due to using the default branch name main in Wikimedia GitLab due to T281593: Rename mainline Git branch from "master" to "main" on all WMF-hosted repositories during GitLab migration.
After correcting the default branch in Diffusion, mirroring works as expected:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/conduit/method/diffusion.repository.edit/ allows to pass a defaultBranch.