Here’s the Gist of it
Pasting has become a huge part of our workflow. We use it daily, but find most paste tools slightly wanting. We’d love versioning. We’d love SSL on our private pastes.…
Pasting has become a huge part of our workflow. We use it daily, but find most paste tools slightly wanting. We’d love versioning. We’d love SSL on our private pastes. We’d love to fork existing pastes. And you know what, we’d love to push and pull our pastes using Git.
Well, say hello to Gist.
It’s all those things and will soon be more. We’ve been working hard on it and hope you like.
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