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-Backs up your public and private gists to a given directory as full git repositories. If the directories already exist, the gist repos will be updated. At the moment it's nothing more than a simple shell script. It probably breaks if you have a lot of gists. Also, watch out for rate limiting.
+### gist-backup – Creates a backup of all your gist repos
 
-Because this script backs up your private repos, not just your public ones, you'll need to generate an OAuth token (which has write access to your gists -- this script does not use the write access!):
+This Bash script backs up your public and private gists to a given directory as git repositories including the full revision history.
+If the directories already exist, the gist repos will be updated.
+It's all implemented as a simple Bash script.
+It probably breaks if you have a lot of gists. Also, watch out for rate limiting.
+
+#### Setup
+
+Because this script backs up your private repos, not just your public ones, you'll need to generate an OAuth token.
+This will also include write access to your gists although the script does not use it!
+Here is how you can request the API token:
 
     $ curl -u github-user-name:github-password \
       -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
@@ -16,4 +25,16 @@ Take the token given in the response and set it in your git config as `github.gi
 
 You can revoke this token at any time by visiting <https://github.com/settings/applications>.
 
+#### Usage
+
+When you have set the gist token as described above, you can start backing up all your gists using the following command:
+
+    $ ./gist-backup ~/gist-backups
+
+This will clone all gist repositories to the local folder `~/gist-backups`.
+
+When you call the script again, it will simply update the repos (pull changes) if they exist already.
+
+#### Copyright & License
+
 Copyright (C) 2012, Adam Prescott, licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE.