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by remram 1459 days ago
I think the problem is the change. You didn't need \$ before, and now people's files are broken.

GitHub could have run their parser on a sample of existing Markdown file and check that the output doesn't change. They have such a huge corpus, with author date info, it is so easy to test that files authored before the feature don't trigger the feature.