FYI, https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-09/msg00067.html
> Hi Karl, > > Org-mode support in GitHub is provided by the package org-ruby[1][2]. > Looking at the source code and test-cases here would give you a fair > idea of what is supported and what is not. Also, the version of > org-ruby presently deployed on GitHub is a bit old, and the latest > release comes with quite a few fixes and new features. > > One of us could probably write to GitHub, asking them to update the > package being deployed. I tried contacting them on twitter a few > weeks back, but didn't work. > > Thanks, > Puneeth > > [1] - https://github.com/bdewey/org-ruby > [2] - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-09/msg00067.html > > On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Karl Voit <devn...@karl-voit.at> wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Some of you might have already noticed that github[1] does provide >> some basic support[2] for Org-mode files. Therefore you can use >> files like «README.org» instead of «README» or «README.txt». >> >> I started to use Org-mode format for readme files recently[3]. I >> realized, that there is only partial support of Org-mode syntax on >> github. >> >> In order to test those settings I ended up in committing various >> tests in my project just to look how github presents my readme file. >> >> Today I created a simple github project for testing purposes (only): >> >> https://github.com/novoid/github-orgmode-tests >> >> Probably you might have the very same demand for testing and want to >> join me in using this Org-mode-github test repository instead of >> creating one for your own :-) >> >> >> PS: is there an already existing Org-mode demofile containing all >> basic syntax examples? >> >> 1. http://github.com >> 2. https://github.com/github/markup#readme >> 3. https://github.com/novoid/Memacs >> -- >> Karl Voit >> >> >> --