Yes, I think that we can do better than plain text as the source of truth, and thus git would probably need to change. There's work around a bunch of languages

Yes, I think that we can do better than plain text as the source of truth, and thus git would probably need to change. There's work around a bunch of languages that are not based on text, some have their own editor or a tool to manage a canonical representation in text for you that would make them friendlier to git. - https://github.com/yairchu/awesome-structure-editors/blob/main/README.md