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by throw46365 744 days ago
Mm. It strikes me that it might be more difficult to visualise changes.

e.g. in FreeCAD land:

FreeCAD uses a "zip-and-manifest" file format so there are ways to unpack that and manage it in git, but one of the challenges is getting useful human-readable diffs.

One offering is WebTools Git:

https://wiki.freecad.org/WebTools_Git

This versions the binary file but there are useful tips about using a FreeCAD utility to get a text diff using fcinfo.

On unpacking and re-packing the FCStd zip file:

https://blog.lambda.cx/posts/freecad-and-git/

Not sure what Ondsel is doing for its online engineering suite, which does have version history.