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My requirements (in rough order of priority):

• A local, searchable, copy of all my gists.
• Make my gists more easy to update locally with local text editors and git tools.
• To be able to easily update any remote changes locally, and be able to git push local changes back, possibly with commit messages and signed.
• I want to be able to easily create a backup archives of my gists, ideally as individually git repos that preserve individual gist history.
• Publish my gist archives felsewhere (GitLab?), possibly leveraging git submodules so I can have them all archived together into all single git repo.
• I sometimes secret gists for semi-private info (I don't put real secrets in them, mostly for drafts), so I want to be careful and not publish them.

Current Usage

• I keep a copy of all of my gists in ~/Documents/Workspace/Github/ChristopherA/gists/
• I use allgistsclone.sh at the top of that.
• If I've updated my gists online, this will pull them all.
  • find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec sh -c '(cd {} && git pull)' ';'
    • (you don't need && git checkout master if as GitHub gists do not use branches or main)
  • TODO: make this use gh
  • TODO: integrate with allgistscline.sh to get new gists.
• The following other find functions are useful:
  • find . -iname "*.md" - most of my gists have at least one .md file in them. Show them all. (alternatively gist -l if that is installed, however, it doesn't give me full path.
  • find . -type f -iname "*.sh" -iname "*gpg*"- find type .sh files with the name gpg in them.
• You can use recursive grep to search:
  • grep -rnw '.' -e 'gpg' --exclude-dir=\*.git --exclude=\*.md - will search gists for text gpg, while avoiding searching .git sub-directories, and avoiding .md files like this_gist_topic.md

Gist tools I'm keeping

• allgistsclone.sh
  • This script (from a gist by @tst32) uses gh to download all the visible scripts of a Github user. If the that user is yourself, it will also download secret gists (WARNING: may contain secret gists you publically archive this!)
• defunkt/gist: Potentially the best command line gister.
  • This tool wasn't quite as useful as I hoped, but it is easy to install with brew install gist and the command gist -l is useful, so I'm keeping it for now.

Gist tool I'm evaluating

• Gisto - Snippets Made Awesome
  • I like that it is free, installs with brew install --cask gisto, it supports more recent oauth token access to github, git #tags, and the macOS interface isn't bad. However, you have to use its editor, and though you can update gists it doesn't look like you can sign commits (naming commits and gpg signing are feature I'd like to be able to support).

Gist tools that didn't work for me

• gister | command line tool to sync github gists
  • I tried this tool but what I wanted was it to archive all my gists in a single directory as separate git repos. It doesn't quite do this, instead creates a database, which might be useful to some but didn't work for me. Since gister installs with make (not brew) and requires jq and gsed to function, I decided to uninstall it.
• Gist It!
  • Basicially allows you to greate a new gist from the cli very quickly, but otherwise doesn't seem to be that useful.
• Package - gist-author
  • npn, Japanese only. No idea if/how it works.
• SnipperApp2 - The next generation code snippets manager macOS App Store
  • Annual subscription fee seemed a bit high ($4 a month or $20 a year?) and it wasn't clear from website how well it actually supported gists as opposed to storing code snippets there. Did not try as you had to subscribe to get gist functionality.
• Code Expander
  • non-english website (japanese?)

Unsorted Links

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