RawGit serves raw files directly from GitHub with proper Content-Type header

They do this because serving raw files from a git repo is relatively inefficient, so they want to discourage people from using their GitHub repos for static file hosting.

InclinedPlane2• 12 years ago

To prevent using them as a file host. If you can just dump files (of whatever size, it doesn't really matter) onto github and serve them natively across the web then they become a file share or a CDN. They'd have to seriously lock down the rules on publicly available free repos if that happened (and they'd have a copyright nightmare on their hand as well). Whereas if they force git into the loop on the client end then it keeps them in that repo hosting butter zone.

username42• 12 years ago

In fact I wonder why they do not have the problem yet.

RawGit serves raw files directly from GitHub with proper Content-Type header

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