Changing of archive packages to git tags

[Aaron Liu]

Ey,

Recently, a bunch of packages such as cowsay have switched to pulling 
from a git tag away from downloading from the /archive/ path of GitHub. 
Since downloading GitHub's archives are guaranteed to have the exact 
same contents as pulling from the tags, with the added benefit of not 
pulling the .git folder, is there any benefit to this? To my knowledge, 
the problematic xz tarballs were under the /release/ path as uploaded 
artifacts, while the /archive/ download remained clean.

Aaron