diff --git a/sync/sync.py b/sync/sync.py
index 99e8e7c2b..cb8770b4d 100755
--- a/sync/sync.py
+++ b/sync/sync.py
@@ -198,8 +198,11 @@ def decode(s, encodings=('utf8', 'latin1', 'ascii')):
 def transform_line(line, base_path, local_files, rewrite_path, rewrite_url):
     """ transform all the links in one line """
     line = line.rstrip()
-    links = get_links(line)
-    # If there are links in this line we may need to fix them
+    # We need to left strip lines before paring for links because
+    # reading the markdown line by line, the context is lost and line
+    # indented because of a list is otherwise considered as a code block
+    # Links are ignored in code blocks
+    links = get_links(line.lstrip())    # If there are links in this line we may need to fix them
     for link in links:
         # link contains the text and href
         href =link.get("href")
diff --git a/sync/test_sync.py b/sync/test_sync.py
index 83e75a573..3acdd4749 100644
--- a/sync/test_sync.py
+++ b/sync/test_sync.py
@@ -282,7 +282,9 @@ def test_transform_line(self):
             "[notfound-relative-link-dotdot](../examples/notfound.txt)",
             "[invalid-absolute-link](www.github.com)",
             ("[valid-absolute-link](https://website-random321.net#FRagment) "
-             "[valid-ref-link](#fooTEr)")
+             "[valid-ref-link](#fooTEr)"),
+            "  - [exists-link-in-list](./test.txt)",
+            "  [exists-link-indented](./test.txt)   "
         ]
         expected_results = [
             "[exists-relative-link](/docs/test/test.txt)",
@@ -295,7 +297,9 @@ def test_transform_line(self):
             "[notfound-relative-link-dotdot](http://test.com/tree/docs/examples/notfound.txt)",
             "[invalid-absolute-link](http://test.com/tree/docs/www.github.com)",
             ("[valid-absolute-link](https://website-random321.net#FRagment) "
-             "[valid-ref-link](#footer)")
+             "[valid-ref-link](#footer)"),
+            "  - [exists-link-in-list](/docs/test/test.txt)",
+            "  [exists-link-indented](/docs/test/test.txt)   "
         ]
 
         for case, expected in zip(cases, expected_results):