Organization gists

[suprstarrd]

This was suggested back in 2010, and stated as planned, and then never done. Pleaaaaseeee support gists for organizations on GitHub.

Update 1: It's March 8th, 2023, and it has now been 13 years since that support question. Organization gists have been asked about again and again and again. This discussion post has 249 upvotes and 103 participants. That's pretty big. I'm not alone: people want this. Please support gists for organizations on GitHub.

Update 2: Lovingly... please just upvote instead of leaving a +1 comment (unless you have a use case or any other details specific to you that you'd also like to share!) I just keep getting notifications and now it's pissing me off a bit more than it was back then 😅

[tanguyantoine]

That would Definitely be useful

[suprstarrd]

Not sure if giving an answer bumps the discussion up, but I will attempt to do so because I still need this. We have the ability to follow organizations now, adding gists wouldn't hurt :]

[queenofcorgis]

@jbmagination thanks for adding this, I added an enhancement label so the team can better understand the type of request 😄 Any other details or use cases you'd like to add would be great!

[suprstarrd]

@liligalante Thank you! I have two use cases in mind:

• I use a service that uses gists as a form of verifying your identity. A while ago, I attempted to use this service with my GitHub organization. Verifying that it was actually that GitHub organization was impossible unless I deleted the organization, waited 30 days, made a new user account, made the gist, and then converted the user to an organization. It's possible, but definitely not helpful.
• General note taking. In the same organization, we currently use a repository called other to write down ideas, policies, etc. Making these into gists would make discussion on the ideas / policies a lot easier.

[shengy90]

Hi it's 2022. Please can we finally have this after 12 years 😂

[ksader-gumgum]

If it's not going to be added, can we at least get a rationale?

[reignmaker]

Hi from 2024! Stability is the King! Stand your ground, GitHub team!

[ross-spencer]

Stand your ground, GitHub team!

Don't worry, they are!

[akbatra567]

Someone please join Github and develop themselves.

[abdrysdale]

Hi from 2025, can we have gists now or at least a rational?

[ryanjenkinson]

👍 to all of the above. This feature would be extremely useful. As an organisation we want to publish code snippets on public blogs and share them publicly, and we think Github Gists would be a great way to do this.

[Ivan-Kalatchev]

Yes, this in fact would be super-useful - I've got to admit, I am surprised it doesn't already exist.

[bramvdklinkenberg]

+1

[jdwuarin]

+1

[gtagle]

+1

[rvdwegen]

Found this while searching for how to do it. +1 from me

[pedreviljoen]

+1

[camilovillegasj]

+1

[threewordphrase]

+1, would be very useful.

[mxr576]

Please express your support with subscribing to this discussion instead of +1-s that triggers useless and annoying email notifications. Thank you

[josiahjsi]

+1

[shurick81]

+1

Could you read the issue description and stop adding +1 comments?

[ross-spencer]

There is also an unsubscribe button @shurick81

[Zyten]

People subscribe to the thread to be notified when it's implemented though. It feels bit disingenous to just point at the unsubsribe button no? The ones leaving +1 should just use the upvote button and then click the subscribe button to be notified on updates, as intended. There's no need to spam +1 at all

[ross-spencer]

300+ responses tells me folks get this thread for what it is...

[tyler6699]

Can we not enable gist for an organisation?

[giladreich]

Especially private gists for organizations would be very much needed. This in particular useful for simple CI/CD or quick snippets sharing from a trusted source.

+1 for this. @github-staff, it would be nice to hear an update regarding this.

[ahmadhasankhan]

+101

[bryantaylorvizio]

I ended up here so this is probably what I need +1

[dtitov]

It's ridiculous how this rather simple feature request is ignored by GitHub for 15 years...

[jazanne]

i beg you...

[roehst]

PLEASE!

[schoblaska]

Please.

[raghavendra-rafay]

Please

[aaron-tillekeratne]

+1 x 10^99

[jonathanlaf]

+1

[pbk0]

...

[lnfu]

+1

[andobolocco]

+1

[bug-author]

Sometimes you gotta brainstorm on ideas or just need team's comments on something as simple as making a change in some old API or code, gists would be great to pull off a quick discussion doc and then team starts adding their comments in favour or opposition of the change etc.

[TPS]

For this purpose, why gists instead of discussion, &c?

[ross-spencer]

For this purpose, why gists instead of discussion, &c?

Are you asking from GitHub's perspective or your own?

It's not an either/or -- discussions might be a good tool but so are gists. They are nicely ephemeral and obfuscated by default. Gist's also support regular document/structured text formatting / export / version control if you want.

I've already put a plus on on this issue. My other requirement is that they organisation be able to find them, so some level of intellectual/organisational control beyond my saying, hey check out this personal gist I wrote but y'all can comment on. I might delete it when i leave the org too!

I suspect most of us are already writing gists to share with specific colleagues. It'd be nicer to do that within their context, not our own.

[AconiteX]

+1

[BranchyMcBranchface]

+1