Question

While replying to a colleague's comment in a pull request, you want to visually set apart a passage you are quoting from their earlier message so your reviewers can clearly see which text you are responding to. Which Markdown feature should you use?

Accepted Answer

Prefix the quoted lines with a greater-than sign (>) to create a blockquote

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Wrap the quoted text in triple backticks to create a code block

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Prefix the quoted lines with a hyphen (-) to create a bulleted list

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Surround the quoted text with double asterisks (**) to make it bold