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Wouldn't that be a GitHub repository?

• kmfrk 14y ago
  No. Repo lists are cluttered enough as it is. :) A collection would just be a category of gists in a category like "Idiomatic Python examples", "Django snippets", and so on. I think people use gists in a fundamentally different way (I do), and I guess you could argue that gists are mainly for viewing and sharing whereas repos are for cloning/downloads. Think Collections as Pinterest boards for code, perhaps. :) Gists could be social, whereas repos are more self-serving and utilitarian in the sense of scratching an itch. Or at least they could be.