On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 11:24:17PM -0400, Bhargav Vishnu wrote: > I'm writing to propose and get a validation of one of the ideas I had for > git tool. [...] > Eg: Code on a gist is copied into every repository, why not create and use > the gist itself as it also has versioning? [...] In addition to what Reto said in their respective answer, you seem to confuse Git (a version control tool) and Github - a turn-key Git hosting solution. The thing is, the concept of "gists" does not exist in Git, and also it does not have any real concept of a repository fork, a pull request, issue tracking and so on. That is, to build what you propose on your workflow picture, you'd need to implement it in Github, not Git. That said, I support what Reto said: Gists are merely pastebins [1] of the 21th century, and I think you perceive them as version-controlled code because you supposedly are a relatively young person ;-) For an old fart like me, Gists are just a sort of convenient way to share snippets of code with someone else (say, when you're chatting on StackOverflow or elsewhere and would like to show to your peer a bit more than a one-liner). And if we think about making reusable pieces of code, this is ineed a solved problem: libraries, packages and package repositories. Not that I do not find your idea having a particular appeal - it does, - just it's not in the domain of Git itself. A packaging system could possibly somehow intergate with Gists (but note that that could only really sensibly work for interpreted languages such as JS, which you seem to think of anyway), but that's a task for that package system, not Git. For instance, Go's package management system allows storage of the packages (in the form of the source code) using multiple VC systems - namely, Git, Mercurial, Fossil and Subversion, and it's semi-transparent to the users. Note that implementing this package system did not require any support from the mentioned VC systems. Quite possibly, say, NPM, could be made to work with Gists in the way you envision, but it's to be discussed with NPM folks, not Git folks. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastebin
