GitHub Gist

Synopsis

GitHub Gist is our service for sharing snippets of code or other text content. Gist is built on Ruby on Rails and leverages a number of Open Source technologies.

Focus areas

• GitHub Gist features exposed via git

Ineligible submissions

Secret gists are accessible via URL without authentication

If you share the URL of a secret gist, anyone with access to the URL will be able to see it without authentication. This is an intentional feature.