Git for Hardware: Version Control as the Foundation for Agile Systems Engineering

CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — DC 2026
Steve Massey · SysGit
Software development was transformed when version control became infrastructure rather than afterthought. Hardware engineering has not had an equivalent transition. Requirements live in documents. System models are stored in vendor-locked platforms. Design reviews happen in meetings rather than pull requests. The result is programs that cannot iterate at the speed the environment demands.
SysGit applies the tools and workflows that scaled software development — branching, merging, diffing, CI/CD pipelines — directly to…