What to do when your homebrew reinstall exceeds github rate limit?

What to do when your homebrew reinstall exceeds github rate limit?

    petrisi@karnak  ~  brew search subversion
    subversion
    Error: GitHub API rate limit exceeded
    
Solution: 
    
Visit github.com -> settings -> applications and add a authentication token for homebrew
    
Visit the given key to check it is ok
    
    petrisi@karnak > ~ > curl  -i -H "Authorization: token xxxxxxx" https://api.github.com/users/sirkkalap
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Server: GitHub.com
    Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 18:38:16 GMT
    Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
    Status: 200 OK
    X-RateLimit-Limit: 5000
    X-RateLimit-Remaining: 4990
    X-RateLimit-Reset: 1401824145
    
export the key for homebrew

    export HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN=xxxxxxxx

Thanks to http://rcmdnk.github.io/blog/2013/12/05/mac-homebrew/