ok so I might just be stupid but how does that link let me clone the repo?.....
git clone https://code.hackerspace.pl/q3k/youtube-dl
Clone, verify and rehost.[1] - https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:o7ilf8...
Where the hell do they have that much hard disk space, and who is funding them?
Even though it takes a lot of bandwidth, I think preserving the source code on GitHub is an invaluable service and hope they continue to do so. I didn't know they were saving the zip file of every release, but I can understand why. It gives you point in time snapshots more easily and who knows how easy it will be to use a git repo from today 100 years from now. ZIP is a much simpler format if it needs to be reimplemented and is used all over the place.