Semver cannot be used with Github gists

[cyberbiont]

Official documentation implies that one can use semver syntax with gists
npm install gist:[<githubname>/]<gistID>[#<commit-ish>|#semver:<semver>]:

It doesn't seem to be true.

[cyberbiont]

github-tools/github#610

[ljharb]

gists are just GitHub repos, so I’m not sure why it wouldn’t work.

[cyberbiont]

You are right.
The problem is that Github for some reason doesn't provide a possibility to tag the gist though web interface, like it does for regular repos. It seems to work though if I clone the gist locally, tag a commit and push it back on Github, then I am able to update with npm install. Very inconvenient, but I think that this is not npm's problem, so i will close it.