Git URL Shortener Exception

A URL lengthened by git.io

 Posted on December 19, 2018  (Last modified on April 28, 2019)  |  1 minutes  |    |   1 comment

Due to limitations on the number of characters imposed by the site owner, URL shorteners are useful for shortening comments containing URL(s). Nonetheless, while commenting on my recent PR for Introduction, I found that GitHub’s URL shortener had lengthened the URL for GitHub’s home page.

github home page short url

Output of "https://github.com" by GitHub's URL Shortener

A counterexample of GitHub's URL Shortener

Compare these two URLs.

https://github.com
https://git.io/xE9D
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Staticman Invitation is Case Sensitive

A recent invitation error under Staticman v3

 Posted on December 19, 2018  (Last modified on April 28, 2019)  |  1 minutes  |    |   1 comment

HTML and URL links are case insensitive. For example, GOOGLE.COM and google.com give the same address. As a result, after creating my fork of Beautiful Jekyll, I invited @staticmanlab to join my GitHub repo by firing the URL

https://staticman3.herokuapp.com/v3/connect/github/vincenttam/beautiful-jekyll

but I got

failed Staticman Lab invitation

Failed Staticman invitation

The case for GitHub user name doens't match

successful Staticman Lab invitation

Successful Staticman invitation

The case for GitHub user name match

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