Version control isn't about generating a textual-diff. It's about storing all of the necessary assets to be able to generate an application. Some of those ass

Version control isn't about generating a textual-diff. It's about storing all of the necessary assets to be able to generate an application. Some of those assets are code, some are binary. And you want to keep them in sync, in some way. Using multiple different systems to get myself "up to date" is a massive pain - I should be able to run one command and then have a wholly buildable set of files.