Markdown: Skip issue number parsing in knowledgebase article

I'm trying to put examples of commit messages into a kb article e.g.

An example commit message is: "#OB-123 an example commit"

Trouble is, it's parsing the OB-123 and replacing it with the title on the issue, and a link. So it ends up as:

An example commit message is: "#OB-123: an example issue an example commit"

How can I prevent it from parsing the issue number? I've tried escaping, and various tricks like italicising the dash, which didn't work. For now I've settled with putting the text into an inline code block but there must be a better way that I'm missing.

Thanks