Spreadsheet vs Git

Questions

Want to track spreadsheet files directly with Git?

Want to edit spreadsheet files through the VCS infrastructures?

Today

Can not do today, Git treats them as binary files.

And it’s not the problem of the VCS.

Using CSV also have cons:

• Formatting
• storing formulas
• charts
• multiple sheets

are lost.

Handling both format at the same time is an overdrive would be.

Git, binary, inoperable, spreadsheet, today — Jun 10, 2026