Gists

Miscellaneous scripts, notes, & one-off utilities.

Why & how this repo was created

I migrated my gists from gist.github.com/izzygomez into this repo to get full repo features, such as a directory structure, grepability across files, & easier syncing of gist changes across machines. Since each gist.github.com gist is already a full git repo, I wrote import_gists.py to preserve commit history during the migration. It:

1. Clones each gist
2. Rewrites gist commit messages (using git-filter-repo) to be more descriptive; otherwise, the commit messages were empty
3. Merges into this repo

Usage:

mkdir gists && cd gists
git init
python import_gists.py gists_to_import.txt

The gists_to_import.txt file is a list of <filename> <gist_id> pairs, where:

• <gist_id> is the ID in the gist URL
• <filename> is the gist filename & what it will be called in the repo

Requires git-filter-repo (brew install git-filter-repo). Only single-file gists are supported.

TODOs

• write a blog post on website about how this repo was created
• consolidate all .pre-commit-config.yaml files across my repos into repo-init/
• consolidate all colors in scripts to a single file that is imported