From 299a563a7bb8be16a20e4c8afb6580e92620ec67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kai Cataldo <kaicataldo@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 17:57:33 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Build: Do not strip .md extension from absolute URLs (#7222)

---
 Makefile.js | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile.js b/Makefile.js
index 1180196aa30..c626aa71979 100644
--- a/Makefile.js
+++ b/Makefile.js
@@ -658,8 +658,8 @@ target.gensite = function(prereleaseVersion) {
                 text = "---\ntitle: " + title + "\nlayout: doc\n---\n<!-- Note: No pull requests accepted for this file. See README.md in the root directory for details. -->\n\n" + text;
             }
 
-            // 6. Remove .md extension for links and change README to empty string
-            text = text.replace(/\.md(.*?\))/g, ")").replace("README.html", "");
+            // 6. Remove .md extension for relative links and change README to empty string
+            text = text.replace(/\((?!https?:\/\/)(.*?)\.md.*?\)/g, "($1)").replace("README.html", "");
 
             // 7. Check if there's a trailing white line at the end of the file, if there isn't one, add it
             if (!/\n$/.test(text)) {