Gist - a git powered paste site

Here's a great video that bryanl made showing off gist and what makes it interesting:

http://www.vimeo.com/1381658

Neat, except it doesn't always use the correct syntax highlighting. It seems like it uses filename extensions to determine the language, which can be ambiguous if two different languages use the same extension (I tried saving as Objective-C but it shows it as Matlab. Both use the .m extension)

this thing is awesome... i was just hoping someone would build this exact app ... how many times have I had to paste back and forth between pastie and my editor when collaborating on something!

Great job github guys.

I like clean and sparse web pages, but this is going too far. How about a "what is this" or "tell me more" link?

Way cool. Of course, I couldn't resist the temptation to try it out, so I just contributed to polluting it by creating an anonymous "hello, world" paste. Apologies to github. :)

I'll definitely use it for real in the future.

It would be nice if we could add tags to gists so we could add some meaning to the code. Plus it would make it easier to search and find related gists.