How to push to GitHub gist

[onmyway133]

Creating a new gist

• Go to https://gist.github.com/ and create a new gist
• Note that you need to include filename + extension to enable automatic language markup
• Click Add file to add more files

Cloning the gist

• If you've enabled 2 factor authentication, you need to use personal acccess token with https, or use ssh.

If you have enabled two-factor authentication, or if you are accessing an organization that uses SAML single sign-on, you must provide a personal access token instead of entering your password for HTTPS Git.

• You should enable 2 factor authentication. Read more https://help.github.com/articles/https-cloning-errors/#provide-access-token-if-2fa-enabled
• For example with my gist https://gist.github.com/onmyway133/c486939f82fc4d3a8ed4be21538fdd32 the ssh url is [email protected]:c486939f82fc4d3a8ed4be21538fdd32.git
• Run git commands as normal

git remote add origin [email protected]:c486939f82fc4d3a8ed4be21538fdd32.git
git clone

• You have branch master by default

git push origin master

Ignoring directories

remote: Gist does not support directories.

• In my cases I'm using node, so I need to ignore node_modules directory
• Also need to untrack if necessary

git rm --cached -r .
git add .