GH-900 · Question #82
While maintaining the gist history, which of the following is the most efficient way to create a public gist based on another user's gist?
The correct answer is A. Fork the gist. Forking a gist creates your own copy of another user's gist while preserving the original history and maintaining a link to the source - making it the most efficient method that also maintains history. Option B (manually copying content) does not preserve history or the source…
Question
While maintaining the gist history, which of the following is the most efficient way to create a public gist based on another user's gist?
Options
- AFork the gist.
- BCreate a new gist and copy the content from the existing gist.
- CClone the gist.
- DRequest to be added to the existing gist.
How the community answered
(60 responses)- A83% (50)
- B2% (1)
- C10% (6)
- D5% (3)
Explanation
Forking a gist creates your own copy of another user's gist while preserving the original history and maintaining a link to the source - making it the most efficient method that also maintains history. Option B (manually copying content) does not preserve history or the source link. Option C (cloning) only makes a local copy without creating a new public gist. Option D is not a valid gist feature.
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