jesseduffield/lazygit · error

Invalid lazygit-edit URL format: %s

Error message

Invalid lazygit-edit URL format: %s

What it means

Thrown by lazygit's open-hyperlink handler (SetOpenHyperlinkFunc in pkg/gui/gui.go) when a clicked link starts with the 'lazygit-edit:' scheme but does not match the expected shape 'lazygit-edit://<filepath>' or 'lazygit-edit://<filepath>:<line>'. The regex '^lazygit-edit://(.+?)(?::(\d*))?$' requires the '//' authority separator and an optional all-digit line number. Any deviation (missing slashes, non-numeric line suffix, trailing colon with junk) makes FindStringSubmatch return nil and this error fires.

Source

Thrown at pkg/gui/gui.go:408

				if err := gui.checkForChangedConfigsThatDontAutoReload(oldConfig, gui.Config.GetUserConfig()); err != nil {
					return err
				}
			}

			gui.c.Log.Info("Receiving focus - refreshing")
			gui.helpers.Refresh.Refresh(types.RefreshOptions{DontBlockRepoSwitch: true})
			return reloadErr
		}

		return nil
	})

	gui.g.SetOpenHyperlinkFunc(func(url string, viewname string) error {
		if strings.HasPrefix(url, "lazygit-edit:") {
			re := regexp.MustCompile(`^lazygit-edit://(.+?)(?::(\d*))?$`)
			matches := re.FindStringSubmatch(url)
			if matches == nil {
				return fmt.Errorf(gui.Tr.InvalidLazygitEditURL, url)
			}
			filepath := matches[1]
			if matches[2] != "" {
				lineNumber := utils.MustConvertToInt(matches[2])
				lineNumber = gui.helpers.Diff.AdjustLineNumber(filepath, lineNumber, viewname)
				return gui.helpers.Files.EditFileAtLine(filepath, lineNumber)
			}
			return gui.helpers.Files.EditFiles([]string{filepath})
		}

		if err := gui.os.OpenLink(url); err != nil {
			return fmt.Errorf(gui.Tr.FailedToOpenURL, url, err)
		}

		return nil
	})

	gui.g.SetUpdateQueueHighWaterMarkHandler(func(depth int) {

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Solutions

1. Fix the URL emitter to use exactly 'lazygit-edit://<path>' or 'lazygit-edit://<path>:<integer line>'
2. If the link comes from a custom command template, check its output formatting for the lazygit-edit scheme
3. If the link is supposed to be a normal web URL, remove the 'lazygit-edit:' prefix so it is handed to the OS opener instead

Example fix

// before (bad link producer)
fmt.Sprintf("lazygit-edit:%s:%d", path, line)

// after
fmt.Sprintf("lazygit-edit://%s:%d", path, line)

var lazygitEditRe = regexp.MustCompile(`^lazygit-edit://(.+?)(?::(\d*))?$`)

func validLazygitEditURL(url string) bool {
    return !strings.HasPrefix(url, "lazygit-edit:") || lazygitEditRe.MatchString(url)
}

When it happens

Trigger: Clicking a hyperlink rendered in any gocui view whose URL begins with 'lazygit-edit:' but is malformed, e.g. 'lazygit-edit:file.go' (no '//'), 'lazygit-edit://file.go:abc' (non-numeric line), or 'lazygit-edit://file.go:12:' (extra trailing segment). Emitted by custom command output, commit messages, or any text lazygit renders as a link.

Common situations: A user config or custom command templates a lazygit-edit link with a bad format string; a plugin/script writes an edit link missing the '//' separator; a template inserts an empty or non-numeric line number producing ':abc' or ':'.

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