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[BUG] `See this view on the default branch` points to non-existing `master`

See original GitHub issue

You can observe this here: https://github.com/ansible/pylibssh/blob/devel/README.rst.

The repo default branch is devel, master doesn’t exist. Clicking the button redirects to https://github.com/ansible/pylibssh/blob/master/README.rst with 404.

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:9 (6 by maintainers)

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fregantecommented, Feb 18, 2020

Closing in favor of the above clearer issue

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fregantecommented, Feb 7, 2020

This is kind of weird, for me the link just appeared on a new repo I visited on the root, pointing to the same page. master was the right branch, but it should’t appear when you’re already on master. I cleared the cache and I couldn’t reproduce.

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