gist Questions

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Is there a way to change the name of a gist (github) ?, apparently it is ordering the files of the gist in alphabetical order, an naming the gist according to the file that appears first.
Tot asked 11/11, 2013 at 0:8

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I created a gist with two files, the raw version of which I would like to use as a reference for an application which will query their contents. These contents will be updated on GitHub. I found h...
Belting asked 6/9, 2017 at 10:38

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Context You can create a Gist on GitHub and embed it on your web page: embedding Gists. This is an example of a randomly chosen Gist: tap.groovy. Question Is embedding also possible with other code...
Handfast asked 13/5, 2016 at 9:23

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I manage an organization https://github.com/marklogic. I see we actually have one gist under https://gist.github.com/marklogic/ ; I can't figure out how to get any more gists there though. Is there...
Lilian asked 18/12, 2013 at 0:26

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I created a Gist on GitHub and I saw information I don't want anyone to see. I updated the file since, but everybody can still access the old revision of the file. Except deleting the Gist, is ther...
Cageling asked 6/5, 2011 at 13:40

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When creating a Gist on Github there is a setting for indentation (tabs or spaces; size 2, 4, or 8). After setting indents to tabs size 4, it changes to tabs size 8 after I save it. Editing it afte...
Lector asked 12/7, 2017 at 7:41

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Github really seems to want us to use the HTTPS protocol to use Gists, for example, they only list the HTTPS url on a Gist page - e.g. https://gist.github.com/donatello/5834862 Is it possible to c...
Elmore asked 2/8, 2013 at 14:16

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I have just started to use Github and have been doing some tests with Gist, I notice beside each revision there are little green and red dots of varying amounts. Does anyone know what they are? Th...
Epiphenomenalism asked 30/11, 2011 at 16:1

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I am trying to create a gist from bash, and I have tried many versions scripts I could get, but none are working. This seems like a correct one, but it does not work also. curl -X POST -d '{"pub...
Ski asked 2/12, 2015 at 16:44

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Is there an API call or any scripts that I failed to overturn that would pull all my Gists from Github to an outside git repo or just return me a list of their names? I know each one is a separate ...
Droplet asked 10/7, 2011 at 16:37

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I've got a gist which contains a markdown file and an image. Is there a way to do a relative link to this image? Something like ![My image](image.png) instead of ![My image](https://gist.github.co...
Pommard asked 2/4, 2013 at 12:34

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Like a Preview tab when your write an issue. Do GitHub Gists have it?
Dimity asked 26/5, 2017 at 7:51

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Can I get a listing of my gists? Such a listing would list all gists, not only four and not show the contents of a gist until I click it.
Japanese asked 19/11, 2016 at 9:17

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I accidentally added file to one of my Gists, but I don't know how to delete it. How to do it? (That is, how to delete a file from a Gist, without deleting the whole Gist?) When I edit and click o...
Overlook asked 27/4, 2013 at 13:17

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I often find myself writing my R code in Rstudio and manually copying/pasting the code to a gist at gist.github.com. I think Rstudio is great and they recently incorporated version control capabi...
Combined asked 24/10, 2012 at 22:26

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I'm sure I'm being dim, but is it possible to view the rendered output of a gist? This is the gist I'm interested in: https://gist.github.com/844752/420cc52eb4910fe8fa2bec9e13daab18b6230503 Where...
Lachlan asked 23/5, 2012 at 9:31

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How do I fork my own GitHub gist? One possibility: there is a script posted on gist but I don't know how to install it on my gitHub. In that case, an explanation how to use the script and what it...
Virtuosic asked 20/2, 2013 at 19:19

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I was wondering if it is legal to use code in a public gist since Gists don't come with a license. I was not able to find any licensing info about public Gists online.
Valerie asked 4/4, 2020 at 10:25

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I created a gist and cloned it locally where I am happily managing it. I also created a development branch and committed/pushed it (mainly as an exercise to understand git). I can see and manage al...
Own asked 24/6, 2015 at 4:55

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I'm publishing a tutorial that includes a lot of code interspersed with documentation. I'm considering two ways of hosting the code: Separate git repository with code files and markdown files exp...
Kareem asked 1/5, 2017 at 18:5

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Here is the image file: https://gist.github.com/mbostock/5503544#file-thumbnail-png I tried to drag-and-drop the image file in the edit mode of a gist. That didn't seem to work in Chrome and FireFo...
Bolometer asked 7/5, 2013 at 18:10

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I created and saved a notebook using Jupyter notebooks. I then proceeded to create a github gist of this notebook. However, the notebook is not being rendered in the gist. I can only see the raw co...
Confirmatory asked 18/12, 2017 at 12:34

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I get this error when trying to push a Gist with folders in it to GitHub: remote: Gist does not support directories. remote: These are the directories that are causing problems: remote: dirname1, d...
Tacky asked 28/12, 2014 at 14:38

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What is the purpose of gist and how is it different from regular code sharing/maintaining using GitHub?
Equivoque asked 20/7, 2011 at 19:41

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I created a a gist on Github and then created a new one after making changes in it. But I accidently deleted the updated one. So I wanted to know if it's possible to recover it. Thanks for helping....
Kipkipling asked 4/12, 2014 at 18:4

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