Open Git commit hashes in the browser directly from iTerm2

I came across a wonderful idea in Shrey Banga’s blog post Little known features of iTerm2 today. You can use the Smart Selection feature to have your terminal recognize git commit hashes and perform a certain action when opening (⌘+Click) them.

The solution presented in that blog post is using GitHub’s hub command-line tool, though. I’m trying to avoid GitHub where I can¹, so both my personal and work related repositories are almost exclusively on self-hosted GitLab installations. Therefore I tried finding a more general way to achieve this. It’s actually pretty simple to come up with a solution that doesn’t require an external tool, as you can just use ‌git config --get remote.origin.url to extract the remote url. For both GitHub and GitLab, this value is easily translatable to the web interface.²

For example the sources to this blog are hosted at
https://gitlab.manu.space/websites/log.manuelgrabowski.de
and the corresponding remote url is
git@gitlab.manu.space:websites/log.manuelgrabowski.de.git
so all it takes is a few string replacements:

git config --get remote.origin.url | sed -e 's/:/\//' -e 's/\.git//' -e 's/git@/https:\/\//'

The full command you need to enter at the action for the Git commit hash RegEx in the Smart Selection settings is as follows:

open $(cd "\d" && git config --get remote.origin.url | sed -e 's/:/\//' -e 's/\.git//' -e 's/git@/https:\/\//')"/-/commit/\0"