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Re:Versioning FreeCAD Files with Git by cxr on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @11:14PM (#40724400)
Previously: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40558094#40568509>

The recommended approach in the article is not a good one, though. What you'll end up with is worse than just running unzip by hand—so just do that instead. Programmers thinking that they need Git itself (or some plugin for it) to support the file format is just a weird mental block, anyway.

Unzip the files. Check in the necessary changes. It's not hard or a hard concept to grasp.

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Re:Versioning FreeCAD Files with Git by dotancohen on Monday July 01, 2024 @04:45AM (#40843805)
> Programmers thinking that they need Git itself (or some plugin for it) to support the file format is just a weird mental block

Git supporting the file format has several advantages. For one thing, changing a single word in a 37 MiB file won't add 37 MiB to the repo. For another, one could use the Git log to review the changes across commits and branches.

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