GitHub’s beginner guide walks through the Markdown basics for formatting comments and posts, which is handy if you’re still poking at how GitHub wants you to write things.
Okay so even if you never go past the basics, learning backticks for inline code and triple-backticks for blocks makes GitHub comments way less ambiguous, especially when you’re pointing at a prop name or a CLI flag. I’ve watched so many threads go sideways just because someone didn’t format a snippet and it turned into a weird game of “guess the whitespace. ”
