The timeline printed check-in comments as escaped text, so fossil's own bracket links showed as markup. commentHTML already existed and was wired to the check-in page only; the timeline now uses it for the lead line and each paragraph. Flat rows keep plain titles — theirs are drawn inside a link already, and an anchor cannot nest.

Surveying every link form fossil writes turned up three quarry HAS a page for and dropped anyway: /info, /artifact and /whatis (21 citations across the corpus) reach the same page a bare [hash] does, and /tktview reaches the ticket. A hex tail is required, so /info/2020-06-02T17:38z keeps its documented fate.

An unlabelled route printed its own path as the link text — markup leaking into prose, the one thing this renderer must not do. Those now read as prose.

/forumpost still aims at the forum index on purpose: measured against the fossil clone, 303 of 304 cited forum hashes are not present locally, so a deep link would 404. check-in: 51930149be user: dmestas tags: trunk