How to escape backslash bracket (\[) in Markdown?

Question

How does one escape the \"backslash square brackets\" \\[ \\] sequence in Markdown for GitHub? The sequence produces a

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Answer 1

This has been fixed on github.com. I'm not sure when, but you can now escape square brackets with a single backlash. EG

\[Hello\]

is rendered as

[Hello]