layouts: adopt git-scm.com's alias template to preserve query strings and anchors#87
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layouts: adopt git-scm.com's alias template to preserve query strings and anchors#87
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…nchors Hugo's built-in alias pages use a bare <meta http-equiv="refresh"> tag, which discards any query string or URL fragment from the original request. This is a problem when external links point to specific anchors on pages that have since been renamed. Adopt the custom alias.html layout from git-scm.com, which enhances the redirect with JavaScript that appends window.location.search and window.location.hash to the redirect target. The <meta http-equiv= "refresh"> remains as a fallback for browsers with JavaScript disabled (which will still lose query strings and anchors, but at least land on the right page). Assisted-by: Claude Opus 4.6 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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Hugo's built-in alias pages use a bare
<meta http-equiv="refresh">redirect, which discards any query string or URL fragment from the original request. This means that if someone follows a link likehttps://gitforwindows.org/FAQ.html#some-heading, the redirect tofaq.htmlloses the#some-headinganchor.This adopts the custom
alias.htmllayout from git-scm.com, which enhances the redirect with JavaScript that appendswindow.location.searchandwindow.location.hashto the redirect target. The<meta http-equiv="refresh">remains as a no-JavaScript fallback (which still loses query strings and anchors, but at least lands on the right page).