defunkt/github-gem — pull request #93 by tsnow (2013-01-04 03:39:02+00:00)
Title: Use Basic Auth and pass cookies (for version 0.7.2)

Here's a bare version atop the 0.7.2 release which solves the "Cookies must be enabled to use GitHub." problem.

It does so by switching from Token auth to Basic Auth, and using a cookie jar in .git/cookie-jar.