# Onebox: rewrite Github links to specific commit?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-rewrite-github-links-to-specific-commit/26090>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [7. März 2015 um 09:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-rewrite-github-links-to-specific-commit/26090 "2015-03-07T09:07:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![chapel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chapel/32/122414_2.png) [@chapel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapel)\
**Post date:** [7. März 2015 um 09:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-rewrite-github-links-to-specific-commit/26090/2 "2015-03-07T09:26:27Z")

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This is a hard problem and is more of an issue for Github.

What if in the time the user links the lines, a new commit is made invalidating the original link. How would Onebox know that?

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