Also, some source files that could otherwise be treated as text⁰ end up effectively being binary blobs because tools don't write them in a stable order, which makes tracking small changes difficult because you can't see that they actually are small changes. A number of XML formats¹, and sometimes JSON & others, have this issue too.
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[0] for the purposes of change tracking and merging
[1] Stares aggressively at SSIS for its nasty package file format² and habit of saving parts of it in different orders apparently randomly so updating the text of an annotation can completely rearrange the saved file
[2] far from the only crime committed by SSIS I know, but one occasionally irritating enough to mention
