posted 12 years ago
what is hardware?
At one level, it may be components connected with wire in a specific setup, usually with a wiring diagram, perhaps with a parts layout, PCB layout, bill of materials, etc. All of these can be put into SVN or GIT. Even photos of the patch cables as you debug it can be controlled by a version control system.
And of course, what we often think of as hardware is actually a microcontroller with firmware. The firmware source code can obviously be kept in SVN, I'd argue that it *must* be kept in something like SVN