help needed with figuring out an odd github source URL

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Sat, 16 Dec 2017 19:05:45 -0500 "Perry E. Metzger"
<perry at piermont.com> wrote:
> Coq has moved to github for releases, and the form of the release
> url I need to produce is:
> 
>    https://github.com/coq/coq/archive/V8.7.1.tar.gz

Oddly, if I click on the link in a browser
(see https://github.com/coq/coq/releases )
although the link is definitely the above, some sort of magic tries to
name the file coq-8.7.1.tar.gz, which I _really_ don't understand.

> 
> What "github.setup" magic do I need for this?
> 
> If I do
> 
>    github.setup        coq coq 8.7.1
> 
> it tries to get
> https://github.com/coq/coq/tarball/8.7.1/coq-8.7.1.tar.gz which
> isn't what I need.
> 
> (And I wish I understood the github portgroup stuff better. :( )
> 
> Perry



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