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Broken (unnecessarily munged) repo hyperlinks in library reference pages #11996

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After adding some of my libraries to the library registry, I note that the automatically-generated library pages (example: https://docs.arduino.cc/libraries/keyhole/ ) are taking the repo URLs I supplied (in that case: https://bitbucket.org/jezhill/Keyhole ) and automatically appending .git to them. This leads to a potentially-invalid hyperlink.

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Expected behavior is to see bitbucket's web-interface version of the repo. This happens correctly if you point your browser to the original URL listed in https://github.com/arduino/library-registry/blob/main/repositories.txt (i.e. https://bitbucket.org/jezhill/Keyhole without the .git suffix)

Additional context

Of course you could (rightly) argue that this particular problem is a bitbucket.org server issue rather than an arduino.cc issue. But (leaving aside the fact that, as a non-paying user of bitbucket, I'm not going to get the attention of their support or webmaster) the general principle remains that it's probably wiser to just not automatically change the provided URL on the arduino.cc side, to avoid any such unforeseen weirdness.

Note that, as an argument to git clone the URL works fine both with and without the suffix. This particular problem only occurs with the web interface. In any case, I don't see any advantage in adding the .git suffix, especially to a hyperlink that is designed for human clicking.

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