How to add footnotes to GitHub-flavoured Markdown?

Question

I am just trying to add footnotes in my GitHub Gist, but it doesn\'t work:

Some long sentence. [^footnote]

[^footnote]: Test, [Link](https://google.com).
         


        

Answer 1

Here's a variation of Eli Holmes' answer that worked for me without using latex:

Text[¹](#1)

¹ Footnote.[⏎](#a1)

Example