Push local changes to gist

[isaaclw]

Am I missing something? or is there no easy way to push changes from gister?

I wrote this patch:

diff --git a/gister.sh b/gister.sh
index 56b91a5..9d981c0 100755
--- a/gister.sh
+++ b/gister.sh
@@ -221,6 +221,10 @@ sync_gist() {
     local last_updated_unixtime=$(date --date="$gist_updated_at" +"%s")
     local time_difference=$(($last_commit_unixtime - $last_updated_unixtime))
     local time_difference_abs=$(echo $time_difference | tr -d -)
+    git add ./* > /dev/null
+    if [ -n "$(git diff --cached)" ]; then
+        git commit --allow-empty-message -m ''
+    fi
     # Allow 6 seconds difference since local machine's and GitHub's time may differ slightly.
     if test $time_difference_abs -le 6; then
       echo 'Already up to date.'

This automatically adds files in those folders, and more importantly any edits can be synchronized.
I tested, and dot files don't get automatically added, which is important to me since vim creates '.fname.swp' files.

Sorry, not sure if this is an issue anymore. I meant this to be a question, and then I looked at the code and found the answer... and now I don't know where to suggest this patch. I'm still figuring out github.

[weakish]

You can just commit your edits with git. And all the new commits will be synced to gister.github.com in the next run of gister sync. (Provided that time and network on your machine is fine.)

gister will not sync uncommitted edits automatically, because these edits may be working in process.

[isaaclw]

Huh. Not sure what I was thinking. Yeah, that makes complete sense.