Authenticated downloads from private github repositories
Update 2014-08-16: The method described below no longer works. For historical reasons, I will be leaving the post as-is; for an updated how-to on the subject, please refer to this StackOverflow answer. Let’s face it. Some of the biggest projects on the internet are flocking to github. But what if you have a top-secret project using a private repo, and you want to programmatically […]