theme broken for gitlab links with more than subgroup

[nicoa]

In #841 link shortening was introduced which is breaking a gitlab (and github) link into several pieces.

This being introduced has two major drawbacks:

1. it shortens links containing several subgroups wrongly in the sense that it doesn't include the ID and doesn't have the full path until the repository... i.e. https://gitlab.com/organisation/subgroup1/soubgroup2/repository/-/merge_requests/4 will be displayed as organisation/subgroup1 instead of organisation/…/4 or organisation/subgroup1/soubgroup2/repository/4.
2. it shortens other links (e.g. pipelines) as well, such that https://gitlab.com/organisation/repository/-/pipelines becomes organisation/repository.

To my understanding the feature should only apply to those fields mentioned in https://github.com/pydata/pydata-sphinx-theme/blob/main/src/pydata_sphinx_theme/__init__.py#L958 and should take subgroups into account.
If possible, a configuration entry to opt out would be helpful as a short term solution here as well.

Would you be welcoming a PR in this direction or am I misunderstanding something or don't see another ticket discussing this?

[12rambau]

We are very welcoming PR and your suggestions seems very sensible. I did coded the shortening function but I have very little knowledge about how gitlab build the url. If you want to edit it it's done here:

pydata-sphinx-theme/src/pydata_sphinx_theme/__init__.py

Line 895 in 39b6a7f

class ShortenLinkTransform(SphinxPostTransform):

[nicoa]

Sounds good, Thanks for your feedback! I opened a PR, please leave your suggestions and comments there :)

[nicoa]

Thanks for merging! Does it make sense to add this to the 0.12 or 0.11.1 release?

[12rambau]

anything merged to master will be included in the next release

[nicoa]

Ah got it, thx for clarifying! :)