How to add an image to a gist

how-to-add-image-to-gist.md

How to add an image to a gist

1. Create a gist if you haven't already.

2. Clone your gist:

   # make sure to replace `<hash>` with your gist's hash
   git clone https://gist.github.com/<hash>.git # with https
   git clone git@gist.github.com:<hash>.git     # or with ssh

3. Add your image to your gist's repository:

   git add your-image.jpg

4. Commit the image:

   git commit -m "Add image"

5. Update gist:

   git push origin master

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Awesome Tip 👍

Thanks!

Thanks! 👍

thanks for the steps- my suggestion is that don't you think a link on what is gist is will.

Thanks for sharing. For those who get authentication errors while running git push origin master like me, try to create a new personal access token at https://github.com/settings/tokens and use that one instead of your GitHub password (see https://stackoverflow.com/a/31305980/4964553). This should help, especially if you use two factor authentication.

Thanks for sharing. For those who get authentication errors while running git push origin master like me, try to create a new personal access token at https://github.com/settings/tokens and use that one instead of your GitHub password (see https://stackoverflow.com/a/31305980/4964553). This should help, especially if you use two factor authentication.

Worked for me, thanks!

Thanks

Any idea if this can be done with octokit's rest api?

Nice, i once tried to copy paste the bytes and it didnt work ofc

You can also just convert image to SVG...

so easy in hindsight - thanks Morgan!

Hi,
Easier would be to comment your Gist and add an image there.
Copy past the image in your gist. image

Hi,
Easier would be to comment your Gist and add an image there.
Copy past the image in your gist. image

Even easier - thanks iMhack

Hi,
Easier would be to comment your Gist and add an image there.
Copy past the image in your gist. image

Even easier - thanks iMhack

Hi, Easier would be to comment your Gist and add an image there. Copy past the image in your gist. image

Awesome

Not working for me:

> git push origin main
remote: Permission to write to gist denied.
The requested URL returned error: 403

Just push in master branch

Just push in master branch

There is no master branch. It is named main in this case.

check it out

Did a search for this info and, look, it's you!

Friend, thank you for how you give back to the community and to us learners! Big hugs!

Not working for me, unfortunately:

sb@marquez:/tmp/a64609f7e46dc52776685ba86a8e3005$ git push origin master
error: src refspec master does not match any
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://gist.github.com/a64609f7e46dc52776685ba86a8e3005.git'
sb@marquez:/tmp/a64609f7e46dc52776685ba86a8e3005$ git branch
* main
sb@marquez:/tmp/a64609f7e46dc52776685ba86a8e3005$ git push origin main
Username for 'https://gist.github.com': steinarb
Password for 'https://steinarb@gist.github.com': 
remote: Repository not found.
fatal: repository 'https://gist.github.com/a64609f7e46dc52776685ba86a8e3005.git/' not found
sb@marquez:/tmp/a64609f7e46dc52776685ba86a8e3005$

Not working for me, unfortunately:

sb@marquez:/tmp/a64609f7e46dc52776685ba86a8e3005$ git push origin master
error: src refspec master does not match any
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://gist.github.com/a64609f7e46dc52776685ba86a8e3005.git'
sb@marquez:/tmp/a64609f7e46dc52776685ba86a8e3005$ git branch
* main
sb@marquez:/tmp/a64609f7e46dc52776685ba86a8e3005$ git push origin main
Username for 'https://gist.github.com': steinarb
Password for 'https://steinarb@gist.github.com': 
remote: Repository not found.
fatal: repository 'https://gist.github.com/a64609f7e46dc52776685ba86a8e3005.git/' not found
sb@marquez:/tmp/a64609f7e46dc52776685ba86a8e3005$

@steinarb You have to use only git push without the origin master

Ah! Thanks!

Legit! The comment drop technique is wonderful.

Hi, Easier would be to comment your Gist and add an image there. Copy past the image in your gist. image

you cannot be serious.... 💀💀💀💀

I kept having weird auth issues with https. When it would try to auth me with Github in the browser, I would just get a 404.

I switched to ssh (fyi you must create an ssh key and add the public key to Github settings), remembering to change the repo remote, e.g.

git remote set-url --push origin git@github.com:<some_gist_hash>.git

This worked, and I was able to commit and push images to the gist repo.