Fast GitHub

When using a new server in China, most of time you would struggle with the network issues due to Great Firewall.

Recently, I came across a good proxy mirror https://githubfast.com, which can alleviate this problem. In what follows, I will use uv as an example to illustrate how to use it.

A showcase of uv

In a normal network environment, installing uv is easy:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

But note that this shell and its related binary release files are, in fact, hosted in GitHub. The Fast GitHub solution:

export UV_INSTALLER_GITHUB_BASE_URL=https://githubfast.com
curl -LsSf https://githubfast.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/download/0.6.12/uv-installer.sh | sh

A short explanation

The usage of Fast GitHub is easy: just replace github.com with githubfast.com. As for uv, it respects UV_INSTALLER_GITHUB_BASE_URL, which defaults to https://github.com.

As for a general solution, one can conduct the replacing manually:

sed -i 's/github\.com/githubfast\.com/g' YOUR_FILE