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Reviewable board history, reproducible releases, and healthy boundaries around generated artifacts: how to use Git for KiCad and PCB projects.

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Git provides identity and history for hardware source. PostgreSQL owns mutable access and workflow state. Object storage holds generated artifacts without confusing them with canonical design files.

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