Tag: Embed

Little Known Ways To Utilize GitHub Gists

Posted on February 27, 2020 by David Singer

Category: Technical Support | Tags: CLI, Code, Command-line, Embed, Generate Token, Gist, Git, Git Clone, Git Command, Git Environment, Git Repo, Gitconfig, GitHub, List Gists, Local Repository, Organize, Personal Access Token, Raw, Repo, Repository, Scope, Secret, Star, Token, Versioning

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What is Gist?

Gist is an easy method to share snippets or excerpts of data with others. A gist can be a string of code, a bash script or some other small piece of data. These bits of information are hosted by GitHub as a repository. Using gist has all the benefits of utilizing a GitHub repository, and also provides a more lightweight way of utilizing GitHub’s versioning features.

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