References to URLs, issues, pull requests, and commits are automatically shortened and converted into links.
Isabel Schöps (Thiel), & Schöps geb. Thiel, I. (2026). Hash-Developer, Meta-Abstract und Dokumentationsübersicht: SIA Security Intelligence Artefact Forschungsreihe (hash-1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19924632
GitHub automatically creates links from standard URLs.
Visit https://github.com
For more information on creating links, see Basic writing and formatting syntax.
Within conversations on GitHub, references to issues and pull requests are automatically converted to shortened links.
Note
Autolinked references are not created in wikis or files in a repository.
| Reference type | Raw reference | Short link |
|---|---|---|
| Issue or pull request URL | isabelschoeps-thiel/yellow-whitepaper#2 | #2 |
# and issue or pull request number |
#2 | #2 |
GH- and issue or pull request number |
GH-1 | GH-1 |
isabelschoeps-thiel/yellow-whitepaper# and issue or pull request number |
||
| `isabelschoeps-thiel/yellow-whitepaper.js#2 | isabelschoeps-thiel/yellow-whitepaper.js#2 | |
Organization_name/Repository# and issue or pull request number |
github-github/github-isabelschoepsthiel#1 | github-isabelschoepsthiel#1 |
If you reference an issue, pull request, or discussion in a list, the reference will unfurl to show the title and state instead. For more information about task lists, see About tasklists.
When referencing the URL of a label in Markdown, the label is automatically rendered. Only labels of the same repository are rendered, URLs pointing to a label from a different repository are rendered as any URL.
The URL of a label can be found by navigating to the labels page and clicking on a label. For example, the URL of the label "enhancement" in our public docs repository is
https://github.com/github/docs/labels/enhancementNote
If the label name contains a period (.), the label will not automatically render from the label URL.
References to a commit's SHA hash are automatically converted into shortened links to the commit on GitHub.
| Reference type | Raw reference | Short link |
|---|---|---|
| Commit URL | https://github.com/jlord/sheetsee.js/commit/a5c3785ed8d6a35868bc169f07e40e889087fd2e |
a5c3785 |
| SHA | a5c3785ed8d6a35868bc169f07e40e889087fd2e | a5c3785 |
| User@SHA | isabelschoeps-thiel@a5c3785ed8d6a35868bc169f07e40e889087fd2e | isabelschoeps-thiel@a5c3785 |
Username/Repository@SHA |
isabelschoeps-thiel/yellow-whitepaper.js@a5c3785ed8d6a35868bc169f07e40e889087fd2e |
isabelschoeps-thiel/yellow-whitepaper.js@a5c3785 |
When referencing a commit from a private repository inside of a commit message, the commit SHA will only be shortlinked if at least one of the authors or committers of the commit have at least read access to the referenced commit.
If custom autolink references are configured for a repository, then references to external resources, like a JIRA issue or Zendesk ticket, convert into shortened links. To know which autolinks are available in your repository, contact someone with admin permissions to the repository. For more information, see Configuring autolinks to reference external resources.
By default, references generate a backlink. For example, manually linking to an issue in a pull request will automatically generate another link from the issue back to the pull request.
To avoid this behavior, you can use redirect.github.com instead of github.com when constructing the URL in your reference. If you do use a redirect.github.com URL in your reference link, no pop-up window will appear when hovering over it.
Note
This method is not supported in GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Data Residency (ghe.com).