Error: blob is too big - downloading a single zip file from github repo

Question

When downloading a 10 MB zip file from my github (free) repo, I received this error:

Error: blob is too big

... 10 MB doesn't seem that big for a binary download... but in either case, how do you download individual larger binary files from github or how do you set up github so that certain binary files in a project can be downloaded?

Answer 1

Github is doing this intentionally, to prevent project owners from distributing compiled binaries via Github.

They want Github to be a platform for sharing source code, not a platform for sharing files.
It is also a way to prevent misuse (distributing non-open movies/etc).

Google Code is unfortunately following their example, and will prevent project owners from uploading new files in a few months.

A solution is to host files on SourceForge or similar services.