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Re:Ask HN: How do you document your hardware projects? by nine_k on Thursday January 11, 2024 @01:03PM (#38956024)
Since OpenSCAD uses basically source code format, it already does.

I'm more interested in tracking and versioning edits to KiCAD schematics, for instance.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you document your hardware projects? by bgnn on Thursday January 11, 2024 @04:39PM (#38959536)
I think you are describing something similar to Perforce Versic [1]. I use this at work to diff schematic or layout. The ugly thing is: it's perforce.. I wish there was an open source alternative.

[1] https://www.perforce.com/products/versic

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Re:Ask HN: How do you document your hardware projects? by fanf2 on Thursday January 11, 2024 @05:53PM (#38960635)
KiCAD’s storage format is s-expressions, so it works OK with git (better than binary file formats). However I have not tried to merge concurrent edits by multiple people; I suspect if there is any conflict you are basically out of luck.
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