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The next GitHub feature will cover our gists, so GitHub gists are a very simple way to share code snippets.

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If you're familiar with something called Pastebin, it's a very similar tool.

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It allows you to basically copy some code into agist and then save that and share it with other people

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or refer back to it later.

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You don't have access to all the GitHub repo features, but you have access to some of them, like forking,

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for example.

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So I'll just demonstrate it first to access.

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Just not over there.

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Over here.

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If you go to GitHub, I go to just GitHub Dotcom.

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Now, I'm sure there's a button somewhere.

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I think it's actually if we go here to your profile and then your gists, I think that's the easiest

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way to get there.

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Maybe there's another way without just typing gists, dot, GitHub, dotcom.

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So it's a different page, right?

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We see my personal list of gists.

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Actually, I don't use them very frequently on this account.

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Most of these are from when I was teaching lectures.

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But I could just show you one.

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Let's say here are some exercise I made for students.

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So this is an HTML file.

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OK, so there's this HTML file, I don't remember what this exercise was, but I was asking students

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to do, but there's the ability to leave comments.

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I can personally delete this file or edit this file.

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I can download it.

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I can share it with people.

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They can it and starret.

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So I'll show you if I go to all allergist's.

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I can see a discovery page, so these are gists that other people have made, so they range from markdown

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files like I don't know exactly what this is.

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It looks like some sort of checklist for turning in work, maybe on GitHub.

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So there's whoever this person is made that just in its public.

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But here's another one.

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This looks like some sort of iOS script.

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So here's a swift script, there's two files which you can do and then you can make private just as

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well.

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So I use these when I'm teaching to share stuff, but you'll see them occasionally.

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I can read it or different Web pages.

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People will share code this way, a full GitHub repository where you have to push up and, you know,

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set up your remotes.

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And all of that can be annoying.

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This you can do very easily.

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So if I want to make a new just, it's just a matter of clicking the plus sign here and then I enter

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a file name.

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So what do I want to share with somebody or what do I want to store in agist?

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Well, actually, here's a gist I've been using personally as I'm making this course where I've set

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up my computer to have two different GitHub accounts.

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And it's been kind of frustrating to have to switch between them.

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But this is a gist that somebody made to share this person.

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OK.

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Oh, OK.

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OK, let's see.

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Oh, and when I'm very sorry, I'm sure I completely butchered that.

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Anyway, this just talks about having multiple GitHub accounts, wanting to use them both on the same

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computer, how to set up your SSL config file, which is exactly what I did.

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I followed these instructions how to add the two private keys, how to test your connection, and then

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it allows people to discuss and post about their error messages or other suggestions.

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So this is very, very useful.

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It could have been a full fledged GitHub repo with just one file in it, but it just is more appropriate.

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So if I wanted to just try recreating some of this myself, this happens to be a markdown down file,

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right?

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So made a lot of just are marked down, but they can be any file extension.

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I'm just going to copy this to show you, although with this I'm not plagiarizing his work.

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OK, so I can now name this.

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I'll call this, you know, I don't know, GitHub.

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How about multiple.

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GitHub, S.H., Dot, MD.

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If I do that MD, it now highlights it as marked down and then I can choose to create a secret just

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or a public gist.

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I'll just create a secret one.

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I can add a description of created.

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And now I have this just that I can come back to at any point.

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And that's pretty much all that there is to a secret.

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Just so I can edit it, I can write some comments.

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I can also have just, I believe, within the company that I work at and share just with people, keep

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them secret so they're not public facing but have collaborators I can edit.

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But that's just the raw I can edit this way.

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I can even add files so I could add some other file, like a JavaScript file and it will highlight it

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as JavaScript.

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Hopefully you can see that.

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I guess it's a bit small.

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There you go.

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So it's getting JavaScript syntax highlighting and that's kind of all that there is to gists.

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So this one, again, is secret.

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It's private, but I could make a new gist instead.

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Just make it public here and anybody could see that on my account and anybody can see anybody else's

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public.

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Just as you saw here, there's this discovery feature.

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I never, ever really use this, I guess, except for this video where I'm showing you it.

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It's pretty rare that I just want to stumble across random gists anyway.

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That's all there is to GitHub.

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Gist You can have multiple files, different file types, different extensions.

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You can share them, you can keep them secret.

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They are, I believe, behind the scenes actual git repositories, although they don't expose the same

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features on GitHub that we normally have access to with a full fledged repo.

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But we can see revisions, we can see diffs.

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So there is a history here, but they're just very slimmed down.

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The actual interface is very streamlined compared to a full GitHub repository.

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So that about wraps it up for GitHub gists.