Gist

Posted by irakli on April 4, 2011 at 5:30pm

Integration with http://gist.github.com for easily and reliably embedding editable code snippets.

One of the risks with using Gist is that if Git ever goes out of business or shuts down or discontinues "gist" service, you will lose all your snippets. To mitigate this, the Drupal gist module uses embed, but also downloads snippets locally, as a backup.