Added support for a GitHub Personal API Access token

Signed-off-by: Jack Nagel <jacknagel@gmail.com>

4 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Library/Contributions/manpages/brew.1.md b/Library/Contributions/manpages/brew.1.md
index 008465294..b0cca1867 100644
--- a/Library/Contributions/manpages/brew.1.md
+++ b/Library/Contributions/manpages/brew.1.md
@@ -459,6 +459,12 @@ can take several different forms:
     directories. TextMate can handle this correctly in project mode, but many
     editors will do strange things in this case.
 
+  * HOMEBREW\_GITHUB\_API\_TOKEN:
+    A personal GitHub API Access token, which you can be create at
+    <https://github.com/settings/applications>. If set, GitHub will allow you a
+    greater number of API requests. See
+    <http://developer.github.com/v3/#rate-limiting> for more information.
+
   * HOMEBREW\_KEEP\_INFO:
     If set, Homebrew will not remove files from `share/info`, allowing them
     to be linked from the Cellar. To access these info files, prepend
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/global.rb b/Library/Homebrew/global.rb
index 8d43afcf2..72f4f757d 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/global.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/global.rb
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ else
   MACOS = false
 end
 
+HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN = ENV["HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN"]
 HOMEBREW_USER_AGENT = "Homebrew #{HOMEBREW_VERSION} (Ruby #{RUBY_VERSION}-#{RUBY_PATCHLEVEL}; #{OS_VERSION})"
 
 HOMEBREW_CURL_ARGS = '-f#LA'
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb b/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
index ad943b6f8..ad86946aa 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
@@ -260,7 +260,9 @@ module GitHub extend self
   def open url, headers={}, &block
     require 'open-uri'
     begin
-      Kernel.open(url, {'User-Agent' => HOMEBREW_USER_AGENT}.merge(headers), &block)
+      default_headers = {'User-Agent' => HOMEBREW_USER_AGENT}
+      default_headers['Authorization'] = "token #{HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN}" if HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN
+      Kernel.open(url, default_headers.merge(headers), &block)
     rescue OpenURI::HTTPError => e
       if e.io.meta['x-ratelimit-remaining'].to_i <= 0
         require 'vendor/multi_json'
diff --git a/share/man/man1/brew.1 b/share/man/man1/brew.1
index 13b837164..38c4c6f26 100644
--- a/share/man/man1/brew.1
+++ b/share/man/man1/brew.1
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 .\" generated with Ronn/v0.7.3
 .\" http://github.com/rtomayko/ronn/tree/0.7.3
 .
-.TH "BREW" "1" "April 2013" "Homebrew" "brew"
+.TH "BREW" "1" "May 2013" "Homebrew" "brew"
 .
 .SH "NAME"
 \fBbrew\fR \- The missing package manager for OS X
@@ -500,6 +500,10 @@ If set, Homebrew will use this editor when editing a single formula, or several
 \fINOTE\fR: \fBbrew edit\fR will open all of Homebrew as discontinuous files and directories\. TextMate can handle this correctly in project mode, but many editors will do strange things in this case\.
 .
 .TP
+HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN
+A personal GitHub API Access token, which you can be create at \fIhttps://github\.com/settings/applications\fR\. If set, GitHub will allow you a greater number of API requests\. See \fIhttp://developer\.github\.com/v3/#rate\-limiting\fR for more information\.
+.
+.TP
 HOMEBREW_KEEP_INFO
 If set, Homebrew will not remove files from \fBshare/info\fR, allowing them to be linked from the Cellar\. To access these info files, prepend \fBshare/info\fR to your \fBINFOPATH\fR environment variable\.
 .