Adding Zip Files to Github Gists

Over the years, I’ve regularly used Github gists as a convenient place to post code fragments. Using the web UI, it’s easy enough to create new text files. But how do you add images, or zip files to a gist..?

…because there’s no way I can see of doing it using the web UI?

But a gist is just a git repo, so we should be able to commit binary files to it.

Ish via this gist — How to add an image to a gist — this simple recipe. It requires that you have git installed on your computer…

#YOURGISTID is in the gist URL: https://gist.github.com/USERNAME/GISTID
GIST=GISTID

git clone https://gist.github.com/$GIST.git

#MYBINARYFILENAME is something like mydata.zip or myimage.zip
cp MYBINARYPATH/MYBINARYFILENAME $GIST/

cd $GIST
git add MYBINARYFILENAME

git commit -m "MY COMMIT MESSAGE"

git push origin master
#If prompted, provide your Github credentials associated with the gist

Handy…