Is there any way to make inline commit notes on gists?
It's possible to achieve this sort of functionality, e.g. for code review, on any normal github repository (see http://astrofrog.github.io/blog/2013/04/10/how-to-conduct-a-full-code-review-on-github/). What about on gist?
No.
You can build a site for this via gist API, though.
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I'm trying to figure out how to specify "Previous Tag" via queryparams in the release form automation, or via the Create Release API. Preferably Both.
Here is the feature in the UI documented as step 7 here.
If there is no way to do this - where does one request a feature for github? Ex: Is there a github project for github?
Here are the documentation pages for the two ways to do this:
Automation for release forms - there is no "previous_tag" option.
Create a release API - there is no obvious reference to how to specify previous tag, even though there is a way to specify and tell it to generate release notes.
To repeat the question one more time:
How do we specify the specify the prerelease tag for release note autogen? - if unavailable, where does one request a feature for github?
Update:
There is a separate API for generating the release notes, which accepts the previous_tag parameter.
For the querystring, a feature request is open in the github feedback board. Vote for it go give it visbility, hopefully GitHub will take note and implement it.
Original Answer:
It does not look like you can configure it via queryparameters or the API yet. The documentation you shared seems to confirm that.
GitHub has an open discussion board where you can propose features and they have previously shown that they work on topics that resound with the community.
I don't see a fitting category for "Releases" right now, but you can probably fit it into the categories APIs and Integrations or General.
Is the code for the actual GitHub website/application hosted on GitHub?
Yes, GitHub is developed on GitHub, using a variety of repositories. Most of the code is private, but some tools are open source and in public repositories. This is not in any way a secret, and multiple talks have been given about the way GitHub builds GitHub and the way the company uses it, which is relatively nontraditional.
This allows employees to test new features in their everyday work to make sure that they're functional and of excellent quality before release, and to think of new useful functionality to add.
The Github gists feature is interesting to me because it provides a facility to publish things that are of interest but may not rate a new repo, like snippets of useful code. I would like to follow a user's gists and know when a new gist is published, but I see no way to do that in the web user interface. Is this possible?
Yes, this can be done, but you have to use the combination of the Github Gist API and a bit of coding. One example of how to do this is here, using Python. This utility lets you query a Github user's gists, and creates a small file with the timestamp of the latest gist. When you run the query again it checks to see if there are any newer gists and lets you know, then updates the file with the new timestamp.
What is the difference between a GitHub gist and GitHub wiki page?
I have steps that I want to share with the GitHub community so they can modify their profile settings. But unsure which one to use
Gist is an independent service with some really nice metadata including when it was last active and versioning, just like GitHub proper. Wikis don't check into git as a version control system.
Supporting docs:
About wikis
About gists
[[Please note that Github has changed a lot since this question was first asked; instead of "download page" read "new release".]]
I generate PDF documentation as part of my projects and I'd like them to stay in sync with my Git repository (it's not always possible for people to build their own since they often use proprietary fonts).
However, it's not really "correct" to add the PDFs to the repository since it's a derived file; furthermore, doing this adds significantly to the size of the commits and the size of the repository overall.
Is it possible to programmatically send files to the GitHub download page? (I know that tagged commits are automatically added there with git push --tags but I don't know where this is documented. I suppose I could do something fancy by adding a separate branch only containing the PDFs themselves — as done by the GitHub user pages — but I'm a bit rusty on using Git this way.)
Github API v3 supports this feature.
GitHub also provides a maven plugin based on the java API that is part of the Eclipse Mylyn connector for GitHub.
There is a ruby gem called github_api.
The other answer talks about net-github-upload which is available for perl and ruby.
check out for net-github-upload which is available
for perl: http://github.com/typester/net-github-upload-perl
and ruby: http://github.com/Constellation/ruby-net-github-upload
With that you can write a small script to upload and update your PDF easily. To sad there's no easy way provided by github guys themselves..
cheer!
The GitHub blog post announcing that this feature has been disabled: https://github.com/blog/1302-goodbye-uploads
I take it that by "GitHub download page", the owner means a repo–more specifically a branch– that can be downloaded via the "download" button.
If you want to add a file to a repo using the API, you will have to become familiar with the process described here: https://developer.github.com/v3/git/
It's not the easiest process in the world, but mastering it will force you to understand the concepts of blobs, trees, commits and references, amongst others.
You can't just "send a file" to a repo because you're working with Git, and Git has some "internal expectations" that you just can't ignore (it's impossible to think of GitHub as some sort of host that you can ftp). Explaining the flow required to create a file in a GitHub repo is certainly beyond the scope of the original question, but to provide a clear answer: no, it's not possible to programmatically upload a file on GitHub, but yes it is possible to programmatically push a file on GitHub".
There's a PHP library named GitHubTreePHP that lets you automate the process (Disclaimer: I wrote it).