This sounds like a horribly laborious way of tracking changes. The whole point is that you should be able to just look at the history for a file and see what pe

This sounds like a horribly laborious way of tracking changes. The whole point is that you should be able to just look at the history for a file and see what people changed and why they changed it. It's a horrible, proprietary and much more complicated way to achieve something that current VCS systems do with ease.