> with git

I suddenly imagine a zip format with built-in git. Does this already exist?

Basically a file-format that has built-in history, rollback, logs etc. Enabling all these "zipped XML" formats to get this feature "for free".

Could be as simple as adding the .git to the zip and ensuring the software that writes the content to the zip also runs the correct git operations.

But could also be a simplified subset and adding git-ability to the (de)compress libs and bins, which can operate on the compressed .git. Simplified, because it won't need networking/remotes probably not even branches.

Involuntary reflex reply: ship an SQLite database as your data file?

Quick edit: hmm, I'm already ~1 hour late, the relevant thread starts at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327457