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A gist is basically a mini-git repo. There is a revision history and they are attached to your github page. You can also folk or edit them and there is a permal
by swanson 14y ago
A gist is basically a mini-git repo. There is a revision history and they are attached to your github page. You can also folk or edit them and there is a permalink to each revision.
There is programmatic access to gists via the github API.
This might help clarify:
An example of using gist.io: http://gist.io/3135754 http://gist.io/3135754
The underlying gist: https://gist.github.com/3135754 https://gist.github.com/3135754
- mmahemoff 14y agoI was thinking it would be nice if there was also https://gist.github.com/3135754.json https://gist.github.com/3135754.json Then I checked. And there is. Not to mention JSONP suppport. https://gist.github.com/3135754.json?callback=foo https://gist.github.com/3135754.json?callback=foo
- mgualt 14y agoVery interesting - I also noticed that gists have comments -- I'm not sure how those are handled. Doesn't this mean that gists are the ultimate blog? Can you even create them locally and push?