Merge pull request github#581 from github/update-1408469152

hubot · hubot · commit 5d0408a70640 · 2014-08-19T12:26:06.000-05:00
diff --git a/content/v3/gists.md b/content/v3/gists.md
@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@ You can read public gists and create them for anonymous users without a token; h
 
 The API will return a 401 "Bad credentials" response if the gists scope was given to the application but the credentials are invalid. -->
 
+## Truncation
+
+The Gist API provides up to one megabyte of content for each file in the gist. Every call to retrieve a gist through the API has a key called `truncated`. If `truncated` is `true`, the file is too large and only a portion of the contents were returned in `content`.
+
+If you need the full contents of the file, you can make a `GET` request to the URL specified by `raw_url`. Be aware that for files larger than ten megabytes, you'll need to clone the gist via the URL provided by `git_pull_url`.
+
 ## List gists
 
 List a user's gists:
diff --git a/lib/resources.rb b/lib/resources.rb
@@ -1249,6 +1249,7 @@ def fetch_content(key)
         "size"      => 932,
         "raw_url"   => "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/raw/365370/8c4d2d43d178df44f4c03a7f2ac0ff512853564e/ring.erl",
         "type"      => "text/plain",
+        "truncated" => false,
         "language"  => "Erlang"
       }
     }

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`@@ -1249,6 +1249,7 @@ def fetch_content(key)`
`1249`	`1249`	`"size" => 932,`
`1250`	`1250`	`"raw_url" => "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/raw/365370/8c4d2d43d178df44f4c03a7f2ac0ff512853564e/ring.erl",`
`1251`	`1251`	`"type" => "text/plain",`
	`1252`	`+ "truncated" => false,`
`1252`	`1253`	`"language" => "Erlang"`
`1253`	`1254`	`}`
`1254`	`1255`	`}`