We agree that it shouldn’t be hard to roll visual diff functionality into open source software packages used for hardware design, and to integrate that into version control systems.

As the Open Source Hardware movement gathers steam, it has become clear that the tools to work collaboratively on hardware are in the dark ages when compared with slick frameworks like Git used to ...

For source control, support is offered for GitHub repositories that have symbolic links on their path, by using the --path-format option, added to the rev-parse Git command in Git 2.31.