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Very interesting. One thing I've pondered - this project contains various pieces of off the shelf hardware, and some custom 3D CAD files. These don't seem to fi

Very interesting. One thing I've pondered - this project contains various pieces of off the shelf hardware, and some custom 3D CAD files. These don't seem to fit as neatly into the way Git functions. Is there/has there been any attempts to replicate Git with Bill of Materials or 3D CAD data?

blamazon 4y ago
There are many softwares attempting to solve this problem. Airplanes, bridges, cars, robots, they are catalogued in these systems. They tend to fall under the "Product Lifecycle Management" or 'PLM' name of softwares. Or also "Product Data Management"/'PDM'. Tends to be enterprisey.
- digdugdirk 4y ago
  I've used those systems previously. Sadly, none seems to be functional on a distributed scale like Git functions for codebases.
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googlryas 4y ago
You can specify custom diff algorithms to git, so you could say all .dwg files get diffed with something which knows how to parse the binary data and present a reasonable diff between the two versions?
dm319 4y ago
I guess if that data can be easily represented as plain text then git would work ok?
- Gigachad 4y ago
  I'm almost of the opinion that it should be thrown back on the software to convert their save files to text where possible. Binary files just aren't great for a wide range of issues further than just git.
- rjsw 4y ago
  The data for CAD exchange files is usually plain text, the problem is that the exporter doesn't try to preserve the same order of stuff as previous times that it was saved.
  - hallway_monitor 4y ago
    That seems almost asinine. It should be trivial to have a standard sorting algorithm so any implementation produces the same result.
bmitc 4y ago
Perforce and Plastic SCM are heavily used in certain industries. I think they're both superior to Git.
- worthless-trash 4y ago
  Plastic seems heavily tied to unity, so thats a hard pass for those of us who dont want to be slave to an engine.
  - bmitc 4y ago
    It was purchased by Unity, but I don't see anything that heavily ties it to Unity. I've used it locally, and it certainly didn't require any Unity dependencies.

blamazon 4y ago

There are many softwares attempting to solve this problem. Airplanes, bridges, cars, robots, they are catalogued in these systems. They tend to fall under the "Product Lifecycle Management" or 'PLM' name of softwares. Or also "Product Data Management"/'PDM'. Tends to be enterprisey.

digdugdirk 4y ago
I've used those systems previously. Sadly, none seems to be functional on a distributed scale like Git functions for codebases.
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googlryas 4y ago

You can specify custom diff algorithms to git, so you could say all .dwg files get diffed with something which knows how to parse the binary data and present a reasonable diff between the two versions?

dm319 4y ago

I guess if that data can be easily represented as plain text then git would work ok?

Gigachad 4y ago
I'm almost of the opinion that it should be thrown back on the software to convert their save files to text where possible. Binary files just aren't great for a wide range of issues further than just git.
rjsw 4y ago
The data for CAD exchange files is usually plain text, the problem is that the exporter doesn't try to preserve the same order of stuff as previous times that it was saved.
- hallway_monitor 4y ago
  That seems almost asinine. It should be trivial to have a standard sorting algorithm so any implementation produces the same result.

bmitc 4y ago

Perforce and Plastic SCM are heavily used in certain industries. I think they're both superior to Git.

worthless-trash 4y ago
Plastic seems heavily tied to unity, so thats a hard pass for those of us who dont want to be slave to an engine.
- bmitc 4y ago
  It was purchased by Unity, but I don't see anything that heavily ties it to Unity. I've used it locally, and it certainly didn't require any Unity dependencies.