[Bf-funboard] Built-in version control

[Prashant Sohani]

Hello,
I have been wondering for a while, if it would be desirable to have some
versioning mechanism built right into Blender. Large projects would most
probably be maintaining separate revisions and backups over time; but I was
thinking more along the lines of being able to quickly commit at important
points in our work, revisit them all, eventually within a blend file itself.

At the moment, I am still studying, exploring and generally getting to
grips with Blender code (has been so for over a month now), but attached is
my addon implementation of a primitive demo-of-concept. Although all it
allows at the moment is click-through browsing of consecutively numbered
blend files, and also stays in sync with the increment-save option, I have
ambitiously named it Gitcontrol, in the hope that someday this would evolve
to more powerful versioning, branching, maybe even git-pulling models,
materials directly from each others' blend files! I know, all that would
need a lot of work, but there you go..

Regards,
Prashant