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Create a gist from terminal, then use git to update it.
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README doesn't explain how to not add files to your repo #34

Closed hdon closed 7 years ago

hdon commented 7 years ago

I made my repo first and then used gistup, but it added other files to my repo, and then made a commit, before posting a gist.

It was intuitive to me that if I had an existing git repo, it wouldn't add any files to my repo.

If there is an option for not adding any files, it's not in the README :(

mbostock commented 7 years ago

Three ways to do this are (indirectly) described in the README:

  1. Use gistup -i to confirm each untracked file interactively.

  2. Specify the files you wish to add explicitly as gistup -- file1 file2, rather than the default behavior of adding untracked files. If you specify a file that you’ve previously added and committed to the git repository, the initial gistup commit should be empty.

  3. Use gistup -x '*' to ignore untracked files in the current directory. (Gistup already ignores untracked files in subdirectories because Gists aren’t supposed to have subdirectories.)