# Ref Names in URLs

DevFeed: [Ref Names in URLs](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ref-names-in-urls-70915.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://github.blog/news-insights/the-library/ref-names-in-urls/>)

Author: Chris Wanstrath

Published: 2009-09-16T03:24:36Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [GitHub Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/github-engineering.md>)

Topics: [navigation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/navigation.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>), [HTTP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/http.md>)

Tags: [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [http](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/http.md>), [master](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/master.md>), [news-insights](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news-insights.md>), [redis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/redis.md>), [the-library](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/the-library.md>), [urls](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/urls.md>)

## AI overview

GitHub describes a URL cleanup for tree browsing that replaces commit hashes in paths with ref names such as "master." The examples show repository tree and file URLs using the shorter ref-based paths.

## Source excerpt

We've got another URL cleanup for you: ref names in tree browsing URLs. In The Old Days You'd take this path: http://github.com/ezmobius/redis-rb/tree/master http://github.com/ezmobius/redis-rb/tree/308c4e3fb7df212cd4c9f06260bd68a3566cb53c/lib http://github.com/ezmobius/redis-rb/blob/308c4e3fb7df212cd4c9f06260bd68a3566cb53c/lib/redis.rb Gross. In The New Days You...