Almost any project you work on will have an authoritative copy of the repo in some kind of web-accessible tool, most of which provide a tarball-download function.
And GitHub's scheme is pretty much a de-facto standard at this point—GitLab's implementation is an exact copy of it, for example:
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Almost any project you work on will have an authoritative copy of the repo in some kind of web-accessible tool, most of which provide a tarball-download function.
And GitHub's scheme is pretty much a de-facto standard at this point—GitLab's implementation is an exact copy of it, for example:
Edit to add: Also, git-archive --remote is actually most of the way there, but it's not an HTTP download, of course. :(GitHub doing something one way and GitLab copying it doesn't make a standard.