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On Feb 11, 2015, at 12:19 PM, Jason White <whitewaterssoftwareinfo AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

> I don't know how well with is improve handling in versioning systems.

By cluttering the files with unnecessary punctuation, it’ll make it worse.

> What I think you would need for git friendliness is to maintain the
> order of the elements in between successive versions of the file. How
> would you do that? Perhaps you could sort the elements by their
> coordinates in the file (since no other unique identifier exists that
> I know of).

Peter Brett once pointed out to me that the order of objects in the gschem file format is not quite free. Filled graphics overwrite filled graphics earlier in the file. Gschem does not have a layer concept.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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