Providing a git repo is so many orders of magnitude better than the usual "source code available upon request" throwaway line that I'd hesitate to complain abou

Providing a git repo is so many orders of magnitude better than the usual "source code available upon request" throwaway line that I'd hesitate to complain about it. You'd be surprised how many people in non-CS fields still think that source code is something to be hidden from colleagues. But yes, I would recommend that academics check out http://zenodo.org/ http://zenodo.org/ which not only helps with the tagging of a github repo but also provides a citable DOI. While we're at it, we might as well point out that source code alone is useless if it doesn't come with instructions on what kind of environment is required to install and run it, as well as the actual input data files used by the authors.