[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="joey"
 subject="""comment 7"""
 date="2021-01-28T16:37:59Z"
 content="""
github's rationalle for the sniffing, such as it is, is that an url to a
git repository lets you view it in the web ui, and the same url can be
cloned by git.

Agreed, I'll close this in git-annex, and they can fix it in gin.
"""]]
