Wasn't the problem with brew that they were (maybe still are) using the git repo as a content delivery network? As I recall the problem wasn't the repo size its

Wasn't the problem with brew that they were (maybe still are) using the git repo as a content delivery network? As I recall the problem wasn't the repo size itself, the problem was millions of users have to do a "git clone" to update homebrew and it overwhelmed Githubs infrastructure.