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We are thrilled to announce large asset support for GitHub. We've seen explosive growth in the companies and industries on GitHub. We want GitHub to enable more people to work better together. Unfortunately, projects that track the history of large files were not a good fit for Git or GitHub. We do this by directing large files to GitHub Cloud Storage, instead of Git.
To get started, simply update your interface of choice for GitHub. If you use GitHub for Mac or GitHub for Windows, large files will automatically upload to GitHub Cloud Storage.
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Files pushed through subversion that identify as large assets are automatically transferred to and received from GitHub Cloud Storage.
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Command line Git users need to install our custom git command line tool. This works as a wrapper around git, adding special GitHub-specific features. You can download binaries for the Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows. You need Git above v1.6? to use it.
Once installed, you can rename it to git, and continue working with your repository in exactly the same way. There is also a new git media command to get details on the large assets themselves.
$ git media status
blah blah
# this is automatically run after pushing, fetching, and cloning.
$ git media sync
We believe in developing open protocols and APIs where possible, so that tools can work well together. The command line tools and the API specification are available at this GitHub repository.
Have an A-1 Day!