[ibejoeb]

It's been done for design, architecture, and engineering. There are (were, at least) specialized, integrated revision control products out there by Adobe and AutoDesk. I don't think I've encountered them in the wild, but I haven't looked too hard.

I don't think it's lack of product. I pretty convinced that there just isn't any significant level of adoption. Revision control is just an intrinsically difficult thing for people to grasp. I'm sure more than a few folks here have walked into software shops that were either abusing or simply not using any revision control.

Look at the state of the art for a product made by programmer for programmers: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/rever.... I was trying to explain this process last week. It's just not easy.