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

Although the question is about GitHub flavored Markdown, I think it's worth mentioning that as of 2013, GitHub supports AsciiDoc which has this feature builtin. You only need to rename your file with a .adoc extension and use:

A statement.footnote:[Clarification about this statement.]

A bold statement!footnote:disclaimer[Opinions are my own.]

Another bold statement.footnote:disclaimer[]

Documentation along with the final result is here.