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I was kind of thinking the same thing. Maybe post the first few lines and then an awesome ASCII nag screen of sorts that says something like:

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If someone really wanted to make it happen, I wonder if even various aspects of the github data (diffs, etc) could be displayed natively in GitSteem.

Interesting idea, for sure.

Pipe dream could be to stop using github all together and launch a new blockchain where the git info was stored on-chain - VCS Coin go!

Yeah, I was thinking about that also. It's all just text files under the hood, right?

Between the two of you this could be built over the weekend!

I'll play the role of jr dev.

[insert easy button here]

Hah! It'd be a fun project, that's for sure. Not so sure about the idea of doing it in a weekend... but still :)

You can for both.
Pull request: https://developer.github.com/v3/pulls/#create-a-pull-request
Issue: https://developer.github.com/v3/issues/#create-an-issue

I believe you would need to update the scope of the oath to include public_repo that would allow read/write privileges for that user's public repos.