Example links from GitHub wiki to repo

I frequently want to link a GitHub repo to its associated wiki, and vice versa.

• See page in the repo associated with this wiki: Example Links from GitHub wiki to repo

This is a Markdown wiki page. The GitHub wiki reports other formats.

• See also Example MediaWiki links from GitHub wiki to repo

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Links from wiki to wiki

• Link from wiki to itself "."
  • dot "." refers to the current neighborhood
  • and defaults to the wiki Home page
• Link from wiki to itself "./Home"

Links from wiki to repo

• Link from wiki to repo "../blob/master/README.md"
  • other item within the repo
• Link from wiki to repo base URL ".."
  • typically shows repo README.md, as well as other repo stuff

The next stuff, linking from repo to wiki, will not work in this page within the wiki.

[Link from repo README.md to itself --> README.md](README.md)

• --> https://github.com/AndyGlew/Ag-stuff/blob/master/README.md,
• i.e. /blob/master/ is inserted between the repo URL base and the page

[Link from repo to wiki: ../../wiki](../../wiki)

• ../.. to get out of blob/master to the repo URL base, then add /wiki/

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GitHub wiki URLs look like

• repo base URL
• /wiki/
• page name - with weaker than usual transformations :-(

GitHub repo URLs look like

• repo base URL
• /blob/master/
• pathname within repo

To get from wiki to repo,

• ../ <-- to get to repo base URL, out of /wiki/
• /blob/master/ <-- or other repo branch
• pathname

To get from repo to wiki

• ../../ <-- Get to repo base URL, out of /blob/master/
• /wiki/
• wiki page name

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"master" is the fairly standard Git name of the main branch.

"blob" is a git concept

but AFAICT it is GitHub convention to form a URL for an item within the repo from the concatenation of

• repo base URL
• "blob"
• branch name "master"
• and the item pathname relative to the base of the repo

Q: can GitHub URL be formed in other ways, eg with something other than "blob/branchname" ?

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The code repo has URL syntax to indicate different branches, and versions within a branch.

• https://github.com/AndyGlew/Ag-stuff/blob/65b80406818c305bf0bfc3a10352105928b12028/README.md

The wiki URL has similar syntax, but reversed, for commits(versions)

• https://github.com/AndyGlew/Ag-stuff/wiki/Example-links-from-GitHub-wiki-to-repo/325ae7d317e57a84587643791bca0a2bb262b697

but AFAIK has no such syntax for branches within the git repository that tracks the wiki itself

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