What is the difference between GitHub and gist

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What is the purpose of gist and how is it different from regular code sharing maintaining using GitHub

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GitHub is the entire site  Gists are a particular service offered on that site  namely code snippets akin to pastebin  However  everything is driven by git revision control  so gists also have complete revision histories

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Gists are actually Git repositories  which means that you can fork or clone any gist  even if you aren t the original author  You can also view a gist s full commit history  including diffs        check out the official github documentation So the key difference is  that they are single files  Oh  and  gists can be    secret     as in  private url  also without being a paying github customer  if I understand correctly

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You can access Gist by visiting the following url gist github com  Alternatively you can access it from within your Github account  after logging in  as shown in the picture below      nbsp      Github  A hosting service that houses a web-based git repository  It includes all the fucntionality of git with additional features   added in     nbsp      Gist  Is an additional feature added to github to allow the sharing of code snippets  notes  to do lists and more  You can save   your Gists as secret or public  Secret Gists are hidden from search   engines but visible to anyone you share the url with    For example  If you wanted to write a private to-do list  You could write one using Github Markdown as follows     NB  It is important to preserve the whitespace as shown above between the dash and brackets  It is also important that you save the file with the extension  md because we want the markdown to format properly  Remember to save this Gist as secret if you do not want others to see it    nbsp   The end result looks like the image below  The checkboxes are clickable because we saved this Gist with the extension  md

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GitHub Gists  To gist or not to gist  That is the  64 question      GitHub Gists are Single   or  multiple   Simple Markdown Files with repo-like qualities that can be forked or cloned   if public     Otherwise  not if private   Kinda like a fancy scratch pad that can be shared   Similar to this comment scratch pad that I am typing on now  but a bit more elaborate   Whereas  an official  full GitHub repo is a full blown repository of source code src  supporting documents   markdown or html  or both   docs or root  images png  ico  svg  and a config sys file for running Yaml variables hosted on a Jekyll server   Does a simple Gist file support Yaml front matter   Me thinks not   From the official GitHub Gist documentation      The gist editor is powered by CodeMirror   However  you can copy a public Gist   or  a private Gist if the owner has granted you access via a link to the private Gist        And  you can then embed that public Gist into an  official  repo page md using Visual Studio Code  as follows    You can embed a gist in any text field that supports Javascript  such as a blog post     To get the embed code  click the clipboard icon next to the Embed URL button of a gist    Now  that s a cool feature   Makes me want to search   discover   other peoples  gists  or OPG and incorporate their  public  work into my full-blown working repos    You can discover the PUBLIC gists others have created by going to the gist home page and clicking on the link      All Gists  title  Click to Review the Discover Feature at GitHub Gists    target   blank      Caveat  No support for Liquid tags at GitHub Gist   I suppose if I do find something beneficial  I can always ping-back  or cite that source if I do use the work in my full-blown working repos   Where is the implicit license posted for all gists made public by their authors   Robert  P S  This is a good comment  I think I will turn this into a gist and make it publically searchable over at GitHub Gists   Note  When embedding the  lt script gt  lt  script gt  html tag within the body of a Markdown   md  file  you may get a warning  MD033  from your linter   This should not  however  affect the rendering of the data   src   called from within the script tag   To change the default warning flag to accommodate the called contents of a script tag from within Visual Studio Code  add an entry to the Markdownlint Configuration Object within the User Settings Json file  as follows      Begin Markdownlint Configuration Object  markdownlint config        MD013   false     MD033     allowed elements     script        End Markdownlint Configuration Object   Note  Solution derived from GitHub Commit by David Anson

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My Personal View of Gist and GitHub      Gist  Gist is a simple way to share code snippets and pastes with others  It is used when you need to share a sample piece of code or technique with your co-workers or friends    And      GitHub GitHub  on the other hand  provides a platform to share an entire project as a repo among a team private repo  or to the whole world public repo     Both Will log version details

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My personal understanding or to say my personal usage of Gist and Github is    Github   A big project work  If you wanna build website  develop mobile or web application or do your assignment with your teammates of course use github    Gist   more like a memo  for example you can write the implementation of a small feature and share it to your blog or write down what you think about the project and share it with your teammates  Just like what the above answers said  gist is used for more like code snippet thing  So normally if you work on a project you use github

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The main differences between github and gists are in terms of number of features and user interface   One is designed with a great number of features and flexibility in mind  which is a good fit for both small and very big projects  while gists are only a good fit for very small projects   For example  gists do support multi-files  but the interface is very simple  and they re limited in features  so they don t even have a file browser  nor issues  pull requests or wiki  If you dont need to have that  gists are very nice and more discrete  Like the comments  instead of answers  in SO   Note  Thanks to  Qwerty for the suggestion of making my comment a real answer

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GISTS The Gist is an outstanding service provided by GitHub  Using this service  you can share your work publically or privately  You can share a single file  articles  full applications or source code etc    The GitHub is much more than just Gists  It provides immense services to group together a project or programs digital resources in a centralized location called repository and share among stakeholder  The GitHub repository will hold or maintain the multiple version of the files or history of changes and you can retrieve a specific version of a file when you want  Whereas gist will create each post as a new repository and will maintain the history of the file

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