Re:Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control?
by estiaan on Monday December 11, 2023 @07:32AM
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Different perspective:
We absolutely can do better than git… for non-text files that can’t be merged or stored as a sequence of diffs
I (briefly) looked into using git as an alternative to PDM for solidworks CAD files and it turns out git is absolutely not a good fit for this use case. Not surprisingly, I mean it wasn’t designed for that at all.
Point remains though that the world needs a better version control system, something like git, but that works with non text files, because boy do the actual solutions I’ve tried suck compared to the git experience
Software engineers are so lucky to have such a powerful tool for free, mechanical engineers or their companies pay tens of thousands of dollars for version control software that is far worse
PDM is a bit more than just version control but the version control is what my company wants and it’s so painful
I (briefly) looked into using git as an alternative to PDM for solidworks CAD files and it turns out git is absolutely not a good fit for this use case. Not surprisingly, I mean it wasn’t designed for that at all.
Point remains though that the world needs a better version control system, something like git, but that works with non text files, because boy do the actual solutions I’ve tried suck compared to the git experience
Software engineers are so lucky to have such a powerful tool for free, mechanical engineers or their companies pay tens of thousands of dollars for version control software that is far worse
PDM is a bit more than just version control but the version control is what my company wants and it’s so painful