Persisting query string with AngularJS routing

Question

I\'ve been working on a large Angular app for almost a year now and I\'m stuck trying to do what I expected to be trivial.

Here are two routes I have with params (sh

Answer 1

Here is the solution I used that caused persistent query string propagation (that I didn't want).

el.find('li').has('ul').on('click', 'a', function (e) {
    // handle clicks manually
    e.stopPropagation();
    // if the anchor tag has a specific class
    if (el.hasClass('link')) {
        var path = el.attr('href').replace('#', '');
        scope.$apply(function () {
            // changing the path changes only the path
            // the query string is left intact
            $location.path(path);
        });
    }
});