If you’re uninterested in learning git, in theory you could try using svn instead:

  <a href="https://docs.github.com/en/github/importing-your-projects-to-github/working-with-subversion-on-github/support-for-subversion-clients" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">GitHub Docs</a>

Support for Subversion clients - GitHub Docs

GitHub repositories can be accessed from both Git and Subversion (SVN) clients. This article covers using a Subversion client on GitHub and some common problems that you might run into.

You could of course create a cli that wraps the edit entrypoint. But note that technically that edit entrypoint basically creates a file change and then creates a commit:

I think it’s effectively something like this:

  <a href="https://gist.github.com/testcollab/1236348/8ebe7df22fef7e695b2835614aaeea0114a3477d" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">gist.github.com</a>

https://gist.github.com/testcollab/1236348/8ebe7df22fef7e695b2835614aaeea0114a3477d

an_example_usage.rb

require 'editor.rb'
ed = Editor.new('testcollab/rails-test')

if ed.update_file('README.txt', 'my message', 'my new content')

ed.set_author('Scott', 'schacon@gmail.com')

ed.update_file('README.2.txt', 'my message', 'my new content')

end

editor.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'httparty'
require 'json'
class Editor

include HTTParty
attr_accessor :repo, :branch, :author
base_uri 'https://api.github.com'

Note: you can’t use passwords for this api, you could use a PAT…

you can use GitHub Web to upload, edit files, without Git at all and any other command line

to upload, simply drag and drop on the web,

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to edit,

click a certain file and look for the edit button,

  <a href="https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/repos#create-or-update-file-contents" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">GitHub Docs</a>

Repositories - GitHub Docs

The Repos API allows to create, manage and control the workflow of public and private GitHub repositories.