This blog post is archived. I consider it outdated and not very useful anymore but since there are many who still visit these pages I've decided to keep them up.
Gists are just like any repository.
I was editing a gist recently when I thought. There's got to be a better way!
So I tried to clone my gist from the command line using the following command.
git clone git@gist.github.com:<gistid>
Turns out that’s valid! Since I own the gist as well I can push to it just like any other repository on git.
This is really awesome since I write gists often.