Include an SVG (hosted on GitHub) in MarkDown

Question

I know with that an image can be placed in a MD with the MD syntax of either ![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg) or ![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg "Optional

Answer 1

I contacted GitHub to say that github.io-hosted SVGs are no longer displayed in GitHub READMEs. I received this reply:

We have had to disable svg image rendering on GitHub.com due to potential cross site scripting vulnerabilities.

Answer 2

This will work. Link to your SVG using the following pattern:

https://cdn.rawgit.com/<repo-owner>/<repo>/<branch>/path/to.svg

The downside is hardcoding the owner and repo in the path, meaning the svg will break if either of those are renamed.