On Tue, Aug 8, 2017, 1:02 PM Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> wrote:

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> Well, here's what I've noticed:
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My observations have been the same. I strongly believe that GitHub needs to
fix their parsing of Org verbatim/code text.

Here's another similar problem with GitHub rendering Org verbatim, in
tables:
https://github.com/kaushalmodi/ox-hugo/blob/master/README.org#formatting

Note the ==monospace== text in the table.

So maybe Wolfram is right here, and the the problems are with the way
> the ...[=description=]] links are rendered in Emacs and on GitHub.
>

Yup. Another reason to believe so is that

[[https://www.example.com][=description=]]

is equivalent to

[`description`](https://www.example.com)

in Markdown, and GitHub renders the Markdown version fine.

Also, below won't be rendered as a link :)

`[description](https://www.example.com)`

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Kaushal Modi