Fixes #1745: avoids encoding #

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/) and this p
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- Fixes [#1745](https://github.com/gitkraken/vscode-gitlens/issues/1745) - autolinks.url encodes hash char
 - Fixes [#1572](https://github.com/gitkraken/vscode-gitlens/issues/1572) - Forced regular expression search in changes
 - Fixes [#1473](https://github.com/gitkraken/vscode-gitlens/issues/1473) - Support VSCodium in interactive rebase editor
 - Fixes performance issue with the rich hover on the status bar blame

src/git/remotes/provider.ts

@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ export abstract class RemoteProvider implements RemoteProviderReference {
 	protected encodeUrl(url: string): string;
 	protected encodeUrl(url: string | undefined): string | undefined;
 	protected encodeUrl(url: string | undefined): string | undefined {
-		return Encoding.encodeUrl(url);
+		return Encoding.encodeUrl(url)?.replace(/#/g, '%23');
 	}
 }
 

src/system/encoding.ts

@@ -6,6 +6,5 @@ export function encodeUrl(url: string | undefined): string | undefined {
 	if (url == null) return undefined;
 
 	// Not a fan of this, but it's hard to gauge previous encoding and this is the most common case
-	url = url.replace(/%20/g, ' ');
-	return encodeURI(url).replace(/#/g, '%23');
+	return encodeURI(url.replace(/%20/g, ' '));
 }