Thanks to the incomparable @someodd I am once again buried deep underground
gopher://gopher.someodd.zip/1/hosted/screwlisps-kitten
gopher://gopher.someodd.zip/1/hosted
Mirroring git snapshots over the #gopher protocol is an absolutely wonderful and convenient service.
Further, gopher specially works as a directory browser of text (and other) files, which is just what you want for #git in the first place !
I interviewed her at some point if someone has the link ;p