A Strategy for Tracking TouchDesigner Code with Git

I've been a long time user and fan of version control systems, from the early days of SVN to being a daily user of Git for all my code based work, my website and also even my TouchDesigner projects. TouchDesigner is of course a binary format, not a format Git can parse and make sense of, so you can't see code changes over time. Yet much of my work like many others using TouchDesigner makes use of Python inside various DAT ops, so surely there must be a way to expose the Python externally so it can all be tracked in Git? A few months ago I chanced upon Embody — a series of tools for TouchDesigner which amongst other things allows you to externalise the code in a Touch project, saved in a format they call .tdn I tried it out and all worked fine but to be honest it felt a but too heavy for my needs. All I wanted was to expose the code so Git could see the differences when I pushed a changed. I didn't want to have Touch load these external files, that was beyond the cope of my needs. So I…