How to make a file:// link in GitHub flavoured markdown?

Question

We are using a private GitHub repro to host markdown files as a wiki for a project.

I need to link to a file on file share, but I can't get GitHub to render the hyperlink.

I have tried:

[link](\\foo\bar.doc)

But this renders as a relative link.

I also tried putting raw HTML into the markdown file:

<a href="file://\\foo\bar.doc">link</a>

But GitHub's sanitiser seems to strip that out.

Is this supported, and if so what syntax should I use?

Answer 1

I had a conversation with GitHub support, and as of today this is not supported.

There is an old issue where this was discussed: