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This might be possible if the binary format encodes a sequence / tree of CSG operations. A binary blob might be difficult to merge / conflict-resolve for humans.

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Even if you had that representation, resolving merge conflicts would be a huge headache. Imagine resolving code conflicts by resolving things at the AST level.

Forget CAD, we don't even have a good way to version control images, something programmers work with every day, besides "use Git LFS and pretend an image is just a pointer".

edit: just saw GumTree mentioned above. Guess I have something to check out...

Of course not possible with images as a binary blob but it could be possible with a series of operations on a (vector) image ("event log").

>Imagine resolving code conflicts by resolving things at the AST level.

This sounds extremely nice actually. The more semantically aware the version control system is, the more likely it can gracefully handle merge conflicts. A textual diff is a very low level transformation primitive; composing them doesn't guarantee very much at the higher level.

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