What do raw githubusercontent com URLs represent

Question

I want to learn how to use rawgit com to serve other applications from github com  So we have a usual way to download and install homebrew on osx   ruby -e    curl -fsSL https   raw githubusercontent com Homebrew install master install     I can t find the install file on GitHub  Where is it

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The raw githubusercontent com domain is used to serve unprocessed versions of files stored in GitHub repositories  If you browse to a file on GitHub and then click the Raw link  that s where you ll go   The URL in your question references the install file in the master branch of the Homebrew install repository  The rest of that command just retrieves the file and runs ruby on its contents

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There are two ways of looking at github content  the  raw  way and the  Web page  way   raw githubusercontent com returns the raw content of files stored in github  so they can be downloaded simply to your computer  For example  if the page represents a ruby install script  then you will get a ruby install script that your ruby installation will understand   If you instead download the file using the github com link  you will actually be downloading a web page with buttons and comments and which displays your wanted script in the middle -- it s what you want to give to your web browser to get a nice page to look at  but for the computer  it is not a script that can be executed or code that can be compiled  but a web page to be displayed  That web page has a button called Raw that sends you to the corresponding content on raw githubusercontent com   To see the content of raw githubusercontent com   repo    branch    path  in the usual github interface    you replace raw githubusercontent com with plain github com AND you insert  blob  between the repo name and the branch name    In this case  the branch name is  master   which is a very common branch name   so you  replace  master  with  blob master   and so  https   raw githubusercontent com Homebrew install master install   becomes  https   github com Homebrew install blob master install   This is the reverse of finding a file on Github and clicking the Raw link

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raw githubusercontent com username repo-name branch-name path   Replace username with the username of the user that created the repo   Replace repo-name with the name of the repo   Replace branch-name with the name of the branch   Replace path with the path to the file   To reverse to go to GitHub com   GitHub com username repo-name directory-path blob branch-name filename

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