[galenlynch]

I believe Julia only uses the Git registry as an authoritative ledger where new packages are registered [1]. My understanding is that as you mention, most clients don't access it, and instead use the "Pkg Protocol" [2] which does not use Git.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General

[2] https://pkgdocs.julialang.org/dev/protocol/