[bastardoperator]

Nexus, Artifactory, Packages (deb, rpm, nix), Cache, GitHub Releases... There are so many places you can grab a signed binary from that are just outright better for the health of your repo, and will respect your developers time.

[phlakaton]

The issue is not limited to archives, artifacts, and packaging. Game projects, for example, have large directories with many binary assets which need to be change-controlled. Artifact repositories address distribution, in a way, but don't generally support change control much if at all.

(And yeah, git's historically a poor choice for this – so you may see companies sticking with Perforce or other non-distributed solutions.)