What I would like to do is the inverse of this question. I have a folder within a GitHub repo that contains a d3 visualization that I would like to continue making changes to. It would be nice to have a "gist" version of this repo to display the visualization on bl.ocks.org that I could push changes to when from the primary repo after I am happy with them.
Another similar question is here, but the answers describe the step gist -> bl.ocks.org. I am unsure of the step githup repo -> gist. What is the best way to accomplish this?
First of all, note that Gist doesn't support directories. To import a repository into a gist follow the next steps:
Create a new gist and clone it locally (replace the dummy id with your Gist id):
git clone [email protected]:792bxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx9.git
cd to that gist directory
Pull and merge from your GitHub repository:
git pull [email protected]:<user>/<repo>.git
Push your changes
git push
Again, note that if you have directories, you have to delete and commit them:
rm -rf some-directory
git commit -m 'Removed some-directory' .
Using the steps above, the project history will be kept. If you don't care about history, you can always push files in your Gist. Let's say you have a repository containing multiple folders and you want for each folder to create a Gist. You will repeat the next steps (or a script could do that):
git clone [email protected]:<gist-id>.git
cd <gist-id>
cp ../path/to/your/github/repository/and/some/folder/* .
git add .
git commit -m 'Added the Gist files' .
git push
Gist is different than how GitHub works:
Gist is a simple way to share snippets and pastes with others. All gists are Git repositories, so they are automatically versioned, forkable and usable from Git.
However, if you try to push directories in Gists you will get errors from remote:
$ git push
Counting objects: 32, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (21/21), done.
Writing objects: 100% (32/32), 7.35 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 32 (delta 10), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Gist does not support directories.
remote: These are the directories that are causing problems:
remote: foo
To [email protected]:792.....0b79.git
! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined)
error: failed to push some refs to '[email protected]:79.......9.git'