GitHub gists

[patriksvensson]

Would be useful to be able to reference a gist from the cake script.
The source of the gist would be inserted into the build script. Good for sharing utility methods.

#gist "https://gist.github.com/patriksvensson/872bfcc44b234b12ea8c"

[RichiCoder1]

Would the idea here be to enable streaming a file into the build script, or specifically allow the loading of full on gists?

[patriksvensson]

I'm thinking that it should work the same way as the #l-directive, but instead of streaming from disc, stream over the interwebz.

[devlead]

Gists after just GIT repositories so perhaps do an generic GIT repo script include?

Something like
#git https://gist.github.com/872bfcc44b234b12ea8c.git?script=RelativeGlobberPathToFileOrFiles
Then clone into folder relative to cake (like addins)

Then it could be cached if many scripts were to use the same repo, and just pull if exist to get latest version.

Built in GIT support for clone, pull, push, add & commit would be really useful in general, especially as many projects are published via GIT.

[patriksvensson]

Hmmm, maybe. Problem is that we probably would need an additional dependency on libgit2sharp since it's a pain to locate the git-executable. When I think about it, maybe it's better to do this as an addin when the #nuget-support is in place?

[devlead]

Meanwhile could just add HTTP support to the #l directive, both GITHub repos and gists support raw downloading if files.

[patriksvensson]

@devlead I actually like this idea of extending the #l directive to support downloading via HTTP.

[devlead]

@Redth this basically is what you've started to look at right?

[Redth]

Yes. This is what I started doing...