What if we can use Github’s gist as we use git stash? I initially thought of this as a way to “backup” drafts I’m working on here. I start writing posts with a .txt extension that I .gitignore, so that I don’t commit half finished posts to git plus also my blog generation script won’t pick up the .txt files for processing. It will be nice to stash them away to a private gist.
The solution is a script to store given files in a github gist, update them in place if they already exist.
When creating a new gist:
$ gistash *.txt
uploading a.txt
uploading b.txt
done.
When updating an existing, gist(say 28fe346dc83fd26a43c351c507c6599d) that you have permissions to update:
$ gistash *.txt 28fe346dc83fd26a43c351c507c6599d
updating a.txt
updating b.txt
uploading c.txt
done.
Gist has an API to update a gist which can be used to implment this.
Only thing remaining is to actually write the code ;). The little “write up”, is a nice segue to this article I read today:
Update 2024-03-21: I wrote the code - https://gist.github.com/btbytes/73d6ddb0cf940e730edf22a60208691b with the help of Anthropic.AI.
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