gist-put

Still a bit of a work in progress. End goal:

$ gist-put file

will make a private gist

$ gist-put -u -d 'so many files to gist!' 1-file-to-gist 2-file-to-gist 3-file-to-gist

will make a public gist of the listed files with the description passed to -d, and return the url.

$ gist-put -a file

will make an anonymous gist of file, for if you're embarrassed about what you have to say. Maybe you like to write semicolons after the carriage return or your plotting the next American Revolution.

gist-put doesn't care if you reference files in some distant directory, and gets your password securely using the git credential tools. If git credentials doesn't know your credentials, it'll probably error in an ugly way. This is an open issue. It then gets an OAuth2 token from github (which it promptly forgets, another issue), and makes a post over HTTPS. Your git credentials are safe the entire time, or no less safe than they were given that git credential fill will print your password in plain text. (after you press the carriage return, that is)