Re: Providing a link to GitHub commit from documentation

From: Vinnie Falco (vinnie.falco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-03-19 17:37:57

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 10:20 AM Paul A Bristow via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> but I don't know how this works.

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking.. BUT...

If you are viewing a source file on GitHub you can press 'y' to be
redirected to a link that is tied to the commit ID of the current
branch. For example, if you are on this page:

<https://github.com/boostorg/json/blob/develop/include/boost/json.hpp>

and from there you press 'y' on your keyboard, you will be redirected
to the specific commit:

<https://github.com/boostorg/json/blob/f55bd4b85edd9b9b9b2d27fb49d66a990aa89001/include/boost/json.hpp>

I don't think that the Boost Quickbook process has a way to resolve
links to commit IDs which correspond to the branch in which the docs
were built (but I could be wrong).

Thanks