I don’t think I would use a 301 permanent redirect for this sort of thing. If you later want to switch from GitHub to some other provider, software that aggressively caches permanent redirects (like browsers) will remember the old redirect to GitHub, especially since you don’t have any cache control headers set. Maybe not as large a concern will CLI tools, but something to be aware of as this has bit me in the past.
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