How to use angle brackets in URL on Github Flavored Markdown?

Question

I want to use angle brackets in URL on Github Flavor Markdown.

Markdown:

1. Fork it ( http://github.com//oooooaaaa/fork )
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Answer 1

Using backslash inside a ()[] construction seems to work. (Tested on GitHub now.) It does not work on SO though.. For example:

1. Fork it ( [http://github.com/\<my-github-username\>/oooooaaaa/fork](http://github.com/\<my-github-username\>/oooooaaaa/fork) )

Answer 2

Even this example below works as expected.

http://github.com/(my-github-username)/oooooaaaa/fork

Answer 3

Since the angle brackets < and > cannot easily be used (or escaped or encoded) in GitHub Flavored Markdown, one workaround would be to used square brackets:

http://github.com/[my-github-username]/oooooaaaa/fork

That does give the expected result:

a href="http://github.com/">http://github.com/[my-github-username]/oooooaaaa/fork</a>