Re:Bruno: The Git-native API client
by karpovv-boris on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:59PM
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Doesn’t all these API testing clients (also Postman) store requests in a bunch of JSON files, which makes them all git native?
Just questioning Bruno tag line but hey atleast no AI in it.
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JSON is text but not all text files are equal for git versioning.
A lots of tools like Postman saves their data in a big JSON file, often minimified, making it absolutely impossible to natively use git diffing and merging. Which makes collaboration impossible.
Collaboration is then sold as an add-on, and for Postman only through Cloud sync.
Postman added a new file format this year. It now does what Bruno was doing since the beginning : one file per request for easy diffing and merging.
Bruno definitely had an edge. And it lost it because LLMs left no choices to Postman but to adopt something similar.