> 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

> 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.