GitHub is the entire site. Gists are a particular service offered on that site, namely code snippets akin to pastebin. However, everything is driven by git revision control, so gists also have complete revision histories.
This seems to be followed by github/markup issue 991, where on ordered sub-list, decimal numerals automatically turns into roman numerals. I have found the cause of problem. It is CSS This is the expected way for nested ordered lists to render in HTML. This is not expected in HTML. https://jsfiddle.net/tf5jtv8s We don’t make any modifications … Read more
Run the following command to retrieve the SHA256 fingerprint of your SSH key (-l means “list” instead of create a new key, -f means “filename”): $ ssh-keygen -lf /path/to/ssh/key So for example, on my machine the command I ran was (using RSA public key): $ ssh-keygen -lf ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub 2048 00:11:22:33:44:55:66:77:88:99:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff /Users/username/.ssh/id_rsa.pub (RSA) To get the … Read more
Because https://github.com/visionmedia/express is the URL of a web page and not an npm module. Use this flavor: git+{url}.git git+https://github.com/visionmedia/express.git or this flavor if you need SSH: git+ssh://git@github.com/visionmedia/express.git
Update 30th, January 2013, 16 months later: GitHub Blog Post Relative links in markup files: Starting today, GitHub supports relative links in markup files. Now you can link directly between different documentation files, whether you view the documentation on GitHub itself, or locally, using a different markup renderer. You want examples of link definitions and … Read more
Try this markdown:  I think you can link directly to the raw version of an image if it’s stored in your repository. i.e. 