Description as big header

[Raine Virta]

Using the description as the big header means that gists will look a bit weird on gist.github.com since you can't use h1 at the top of the document, as otherwise you'll have double header on gistlog.

Would it be to much magic to read first h1 from gist as the big header, and use description as some kind of short text under the big header?

Just my 2¢.

edit:

I also noticed that gist.github.com gets the gist page's <title> from description. If one wants to have sensible title there and a header in the document, there will be a double header on gistlog.

[Matt Stauffer]

I've seen quite a few people do that.

We didn't do it because it requires a lot of magic. And changing it now would be tough.

I don't know if I care enough to allow people to differentiate the <title> vs. the h1.. but I definitely understand that doing it this way is making the gist.github.com version a little less compelling.

Let's keep thinking about if there's a way to do this.