How to embed a Gist within a GitHub issue comment?

Question

I have a Gist that I would like to embed within a GitHub issue. I have tried pasting the "Embed" <script> markup shown on the Gist page, which simply adds the escaped HTML to the issue comment.

This seems a rather obvious feature to not be supported. What am I missing?

Answer 1

Because embedding requires a <script> tag which gets sanitized and removed to prevent abuse this probably won't ever work in GitHub Issues.