Document raw.githubusercontent.com #8031
Description
What article on docs.github.com is affected?
Any page that talks about limits and doesn't indicate if raw.githubusercontent.com is covered/uncovered
What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?
Any page that talks about limits.
Additional information
The domain is mentioned occasionally, here's code that mentions it:
https://github.com/github/docs/search?q=raw.githubusercontent.com+-path%3Atranslations&type=code
Oddly, there are way more hits if you don't exclude translations. Based on my experience w/ translations and a tool to check translations, this means that the translations are buggy and there is missing quality control on them.
Here's a visible reference:
https://docs.github.com/en/github/creating-cloning-and-archiving-repositories/creating-a-repository-on-github/limits-for-viewing-content-and-diffs-in-a-repository#text-limits
Text files over 5 MB are only available through their raw URLs, which are served through raw.githubusercontent.com; for example, https://raw.githubusercontent.com/octocat/Spoon-Knife/master/index.html. Click the Raw button to get the raw URL for a file.
Here is @canuckjacq indicating that they have no idea what the correct answer is:
https://github.community/t/raw-githubusercontent-com-rate-limit/142444/6
https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/developers/apps/rate-limits-for-github-apps#normal-user-to-server-rate-limits
This has come up repeatedly.