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GitHub Releases

How to Create Download Links on Your Website Via GitHub

Synopsis

In this entry, for the purposes of quick reference, I document the process of utilizing GitHub releases to create links for file downloads on my webpage. If not done in this way when GitHub is used as a server, the files will not download properly.

Questions & Objectives
  1. I want to update my latest entry to include a link for downloading Sheveks "booting fault" sandbox and future sandboxes.
  2. I want to better understand what the purpose of the release is intended for apart from this.
Process

    1. In the following, I make it as obvious what I am doing as possible. In the right hand side of the screen I click "releases". On the next page I click "draft new release". I provide a tag for the release, upload the file, and click "publish". I then copy the link of the published file and edit that link into my HTML where desired.

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      Updating HTML 1

      Updating HTLM 1
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      Updating HTML 2

      Updating HTLM 2
      Updating HTML 2

      Verifying the Download

      Verifying the Download
      Verifying the Download

    2. That seemed simple enough. But I'm not satisfied. I ask Shevek to elaborate what the intended purpose of GitHub release is.

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Conclusions

Uploading a file onto GitHub releases is relatively straight forward. I now have a clearer insight into how I might be using GitHub in the future as well.

Shevek's Haiku

Version tag pushed live
Code leaves home, meets the wide world
Quiet build exhales