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Github.js - A JS Library To Store A File On Github Right From The Browser

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Link to the actual Github repo: https://github.com/michael/github

It would be really interesting to use this as a part of a posting system to jekyll hosted through github

Yup - it's not that difficult either.

This repo of mine is about 90% of the way there (though it doesn't use this library, it uses the same method): https://github.com/swanson/lanyon

There are some caveats: you need to register an OAuth app to get access to CORS and you have to use basic auth.

Just one quick question, why not just make the gh-pages branches in your project the main branch instead of master, so it would show that branch right away when you visit you project.

Otherwise, it looks like a great project, and I might use it with my Jekyll blog.

+1 to the switch gh-pages comment.

Typically 'master' is where the code is and 'gh-pages' is where the pretty docs are. In your case everything is in gh-pages. Either maintain the code in master and "deploy & display" it on the gh-pages branch or just make gh-pages your master.

come to think of it, that's what i should do with some of my repos ;)

We're already working on that. See http://substance.io/michael/columnist

To be open sourced soon.

And try out: http://columnist.devseed.com

I checked out Columnist and it looks pretty awesome! I was trying to look at the Github project page but it doesn't look like it's posted yet.

Looking forward to seeing how this progresses!

Actually, i'd like to use it to disconnect the last piece of blogging software from the server - comments.

the recent post on jekyllbootstrap.com had instructions on connecting to disqus,quora etc and I couldnt help but think:

"but that's just more text, why are we sending people away to a 3rd party for them to just comment?"

A jekyll addon that handles comments using this library, anyone?

Because our good friends, spammers, need to be treated properly. I doubt a jekyll plugin can be sophisticated enough to keep them at bay.

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