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Creating a large GittHub Gist

The UI at GitHub limits the size of the gist you can create. The way around this is via the gh command line. For example:

$ gh gist create path/to/big.txt
- Creating gist big.txt
✓ Created secret gist big.txt
https://gist.github.com/d6y/bunch-of-characters-here
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09 Feb 2026
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