How to permalink to a gist's raw file

README.md

Problem: When linking to the raw version of a gist, the link changes with each revision.

Solution:

To return the first file from a gist: https://gist.github.com/[gist_user]/[gist_id]/raw/

• Example: https://gist.github.com/atenni/5604522/raw/
• Works even when you change the filename.

To get a file from multi–file gist: https://gist.github.com/[gist_user]/[gist_id]/raw/[file_name]

• Example: https://gist.github.com/atenni/5604522/raw/README.md

(via: http://stackoverflow.com/a/14529686)

Nice. Exactly what I needed, thank you! 🙏
I think this should be the default URL, or GitHub should at least be more explicit about this difference...

wow, you are my time saver!!!