You can create two kinds of gists: public and secret. Create a public gist if you're ready to share your ideas with the world or a secret gist if you're not.

If you are signed in to GitHub Enterprise when you create a gist, the gist will be associated with your account and you will see it in your list of gists when you navigate to your gist home page (http(s)://[hostname]/gist, or http(s)://gist.[hostname] if subdomains are enabled. For more information, contact your site administrator).

Creating a gist

You can also drag and drop a text file from your desktop directly into the gist editor.

  1. Sign in to GitHub Enterprise.
  2. Navigate to your gist home page (http(s)://[hostname]/gist, or http(s)://gist.[hostname] if subdomains are enabled. For more information, contact your site administrator).
  3. Gist name descriptionType an optional description and name for your gist.

  4. Gist text boxType the text of your gist into the gist text box.

  5. Do one of the following:

    Note: After creating a gist, you cannot convert it from public to secret, or from secret to public.

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