Clone gist in Desktop

README.md

Download the user.js file and then drop it into your chrome://extensions/ tab and enjoy the button on your gists!

clonegistindesktop.user.js

// ==UserScript==
// @id             clonegistindesktop
// @name           Clone gist in Desktop
// @author         Antoine BERNIER (abernier)
// @version        0.0.2
// @description    Add a 'Clone in Desktop' button to gists
// @match          https://gist.github.com/*
// ==/UserScript==

(function () {
  var li = document.createElement('li');
  var downloadLi = document.querySelector('a[href*="/download"]').parentNode;
  var repoUrl = document.querySelector('input[name="url-field"]').getAttribute('value');
  
  // make a copy of the download li
  li.innerHTML = downloadLi.innerHTML;
  // Change some things
  li.innerHTML = li.innerHTML.replace(/href="[^"]*"/, 'href="github-mac://openRepo/' + repoUrl + '"');
  li.innerHTML = li.innerHTML.replace('Download Gist', 'Clone in Desktop');
  li.innerHTML = li.innerHTML.replace('octicon-cloud-download', 'octicon-device-desktop');
  // insert just before
  downloadLi.parentNode.insertBefore(li, downloadLi);
}());

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http://superuser.com/questions/456267/how-can-i-get-a-clone-in-mac-function-for-github-gists

Just updated so it now re-works for new gists interface ;)

Can you add this to the Chrome web store? Even with developer mode enabled, the stable branch of Chrome for Windows only allows extensions that come from the Chrome web store. I wish GitHub would make add this feature to Gist pages, but until then this seems to be the only avenue for cloning Gists using the GitHub desktop on Windows. Cloning manually from the command-line is lame!