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What is the difference between GitHub and gist?

What is the purpose of gist and how is it different from regular code sharing/maintaining using GitHub?

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Solution

  • GitHub is the entire site. Gists are a particular service offered on that site, namely code snippets akin to pastebin. However, everything is driven by git revision control, so gists also have complete revision histories.