What is the nature and description of the request?

Starting in AAP 2.2.1+ the function that copies the project from the controller node to the destination directory now ignores the .git/ directory from the project.

I believe this change can be seen with this line of this commit: https://github.com/ansible/tower/commit/46be2d9e5b4423f316d6fae4a080d36716622c15#diff-e7dbe44bafe6517b8185bafcffb5a752ff7a07b3b21ef41ffbf7a873f1c207cbR1331

(upstream) https://github.com/ansible/awx/commit/46be2d9e5b4423f316d6fae4a080d36716622c15#diff-e7dbe44bafe6517b8185bafcffb5a752ff7a07b3b21ef41ffbf7a873f1c207cbR1331

This change has broken some customer's playbooks/workflows as sometimes the .git/ directory is utilized in jobs.

Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here)

Utilizing logic around the project files inside of the .git/ directory was embedded into some playbooks.

How would you like to achieve this? (List the functional requirements here)

Either don't ignore the .git/ directory on project copy anymore or introduce some sort of option to allow it to be copied if wanted.