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Right, but that's not what GFM does. GFM turns any single newline into a <br>.

Depends on where you use it. All file backed content (ie. repo data) does not use it, while the communications systems (PRs and issues) use it.

As of this announcement, file backed content _does_ use GFM (try a table!), but not the `hardbreaks` option.