A Gist on GitHub is a basic repository. I figured out that you can clone them and keep copies locally, just like any other repository.
Even though I’ve used Gist’s a fair amount it never became obvious to me that you could clone them.
Here are the steps.
git clone {url} {name}
locally.That will clone the Gist and give it a readable name. If you don’t give it a name it will clone as it’s 32-byte ID (e.g. 0654e4e3571ccdca5ceffc63cde6308e).
That’s it, you now have a local copy that you can push, pull, and otherwise edit.
Written by Joel Dare on July 10, 2024.
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