I copy-pasted the front page into ChatGPT and told it to "Explain some usecases", and it's pretty useful.
A city planning department tracks changes to zoning boundaries over time.
Staff can:
See who changed what, when, and why.
Roll back or compare versions.
Create branches for "proposed" zoning plans without touching main data.
Citizens can access a cloned version of planning data.
Changes or suggestions (e.g., new bike paths) can be proposed via pull requests.
Keeps public and internal data separate but linkable.
or Farm fields are polygons; each year’s crop type is stored as tabular data.
Each season gets committed with metadata and satellite imagery.
and many others