Skip to content Sign up Sign in This repository Explore Features Enterprise Blog Goodbye, Uploads /.pagehead Featured All Posts New Features Engineering Enterprise Conferences Meetups New Hires Watercooler Subscribe December 12, 2012 kneath New Features In addition to providing downloadable source code archives , GitHub previously allowed you to upload files (separate from the versioned files) in the repository, and make it available for download in the Downloads Tab. Supporting these types of uploads was a source of great confusion and pain – they were too similar to the files in a Git repository. As part of our ongoing effort to keep GitHub focused on building software, we are deprecating the Downloads Tab. The ability to upload new files via the web site is disabled today. Existing links to previously uploaded files will ...