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We recent­ly post­ed Chris Hennes excel­lent talk at the FreeCAD North Amer­i­can meet­up 2026 which is well worth check­ing out to see a snap­shot of upcom­ing devel­op­ments at FreeCAD. The above video is anoth­er talk from that day from Ephi who has devel­oped the excel­lent His­to­ry Work­bench.

This work­bench is a way to add file ver­sion­ing to your local­ly stored FreeCAD project fold­er to allow you to keep a his­to­ry of all the changes to your project over time. It also enables you to roll back changes if need­ed when a change cre­ates an issue. 

It’s runs using Git, the most pop­u­lar file ver­sion­ing tool on the plan­et, but instead of hav­ing to learn a lot of ter­mi­nal com­mands, all the Git func­tion­al­i­ty is bro­ken out to the FreeCAD GUI. Inter­est­ing­ly the Ephi has also adapt­ed the lan­guage used to make the Git func­tion­al­i­ty more approach­able for those less famil­iar. How­ev­er if you are a Git user don’t wor­ry the git terms, diff, stag­ing, com­mit etc are all there as well. 

The video is well worth a watch, not only for the excel­lent way this has been imple­ment­ed in FreeCAD, but it’s also a good primer for how file ver­sion­ing can work in hard­ware project.