[tomashubelbauer]

In your situation, I'd just whip together a quick PowerShell script like I have here, but tailor it to the structure of your file format: traverse the XML tree and have a few if-else statements which filter out noisy metadata you don't need to see in the diff, if any, and save the resulting collected text node contents as a text file alongside the XML files. Each commit with changes to the XML will thanks to the Git hook also have a corresponding TXT file so you can very easily view the changes in a skimable way, unlike the potentially really big and messy XML diff you'd have if you versioned only the original.

[rperez333]

thank you guys for these ideas, both sound great (powershell script and linter) and I'm confident I will get something working now!