Think about what it would look like if a versioning system like git and a pastie had a child, and you'd probably came quite close what the folks behind the project hosting service 
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Personally I see myself using Gist instead of a program like Code Collector Pro or a notes.txt file to maintain my cool code snippets. With most pastie services once you put up the pastie you can never find it again (Github may have this problem as well).
Also according to PJ @ GitHub, Gists are completely free, even private pasties. So based on that pasties will not affect your storage space.
Rob Olson on July 23, 2008 at 01:44 +0200
Ah, good to know. Thank you :-) I guess in this case GitHub will try to prevent you from creating folders in your pastes since otherwise it would be a competition to its own paid service.
Regarding searchability: I think what Gist really needs is tagging, nothing more.
zerok on July 23, 2008 at 09:18 +0200
Yeah- I should have mentioned the folder limitation in the TechCrunch article.
Personally, I am a little disappointed they did that. I think a better solution would have been to allow folders but limit the repository size to something like 500k or 1mb. That way people would have a difficult time hosting their real projects as a pastie without having to restrict the use of folders.
Rob Olson on July 23, 2008 at 09:47 +0200
What is the difference between Gist and Pastie?
AkitaOnRails on July 24, 2008 at 21:16 +0200
As even the teaser said: pastie + versioning (git) = gist ;-)
zerok on July 25, 2008 at 09:34 +0200