Directly embedding images into a Github wiki

Tue, Nov 15, 2016

Although there’s a reasonable amount of posts saying that you have to upload a image to your repository (the code), and then link with the “raw” approach, my colleague and I found a more elegant solution:

Upload the image directly into the Wiki repository

Indeed the wiki is just another Git repo ! Here is the github page.

So basically you need first clone the wiki repo: git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/YOUR_REPOSITORY.wiki.git

Then you add your image:

cp ~/myimage.png YOUR_REPOSITORY.wiki/
cd YOUR_REPOSITORY.wiki
git add myimage.png
git commit -m "added picture for the wiki"
git push

Your image is now available at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/USERNAME/REPOSITORY/myimage.png

so you only need to link it in your Wiki using the regular link [text]("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/USERNAME/REPOSITORY/myimage.png")

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Directly embedding images into a Github wiki