Helper script that pushes a markdown file as a gist after linkifying issues

make_gist.bash

#!/bin/bash

set -e
set -o pipefail

REPO="moment/moment"

function json_escape(){
    echo -n "$1" | python -c 'import json,sys; print json.dumps(sys.stdin.read())'
}

if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
    echo "$0 FILE" >&2
    exit 1
fi

filename="$1"
shift

do_linkify=1
while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
  case $1 in
    '--skip-linkify')
      do_linkify=0
      ;;
    *)
      echo "unknown option" >&2
      exit 1
  esac
  shift
done

description="$(head -n1 $filename)"
description=${description### }
basename=$(basename $filename)

if [ "$do_linkify" = 1 ]; then
  cp "$filename" "${filename}.bac"
  sed -i \
      -e 's_#\([0-9][0-9]*\)_[#\1](https://github.com/'$REPO'/issues/\1)_g' \
      -e 's_\[\([0-9]*\)\]_[#\1](https://github.com/'$REPO'/pull/\1)_g' \
      $filename
fi

echo "$description"

cat > /tmp/abc  <<EOF
quit with error ':cq'
basename: $basename
desc: $description

$(cat $filename)
EOF

if ! vim /tmp/abc; then
  if [ "$do_linkify" = 1 ]; then
    cp "$filename" "${filename}.new"
    mv "${filename}.bac" "$filename"
  fi
  exit
fi


curl -H "Authorization: token $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -X POST \
    -d "
        {
            \"description\":\"$description\",
            \"public\":true,
            \"files\": {
                \"$basename\": {
                    \"content\": $(json_escape "$(cat $filename)")
                }
            }
        }" \
    "https://api.github.com/gists"