Pasted a link like github.com/owner/repo/blob/refs/heads/main/file.md and the macro is broken

What you are seeing

I pasted a link like github.com/owner/repo/blob/refs/heads/main/file.md and the macro is broken.

#Why it happens

When a pasted link is converted to a macro automatically, the third part of the link is read as the branch name without any checking. With a link containing refs/heads, the branch is read as "refs" and the file path as "heads/main/file.md", so the macro looks for a file that does not exist.

Browse GitHub reads this form of link correctly. Automatic conversion does not.

#What to do

Paste the short form of the link instead, for example github.com/owner/repo/blob/main/file.md. Or fix the existing macro by picking the file again through Browse GitHub.

#Settings involved

None. GitHub has no settings screen of its own, so there is nothing to change in Capable global settings or space settings.

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