BIM format keeps updating

[morganus]

Hello everyone !

My team and I have been working with PBIP and are very happy about it, but we noticed for the past few months a very strange behavior that is slowing us down.

To be noted that we integrate our changes using GIT and Visual Studio 2022 with its latest updates.

The issue we are having is that as soon as one PBIP project is edited by a developer different from the last one, the BIM file structure is heavily reformatted moving parts of code from top to bottom and vice versa, even if there is no change.

We tried comparing Power BI configuration settings and I even imported the user.zip from my colleague laptop, but we keep facing the same issue and it's becoming hard to review our changes in this context (last review gives 910 changes where nothing was changed).

Did some of you face the same ? If yes, how did you solve ?

Thanks

[morganus]

Hello,
Even if we do something as simple as a save, in Visual Studio the file will appear as modified and there are hundreds of changes, most of which if not all, just moving blocks up and down.

For instance, this morning I updated Power BI desktop, opened the project and hit save, and I am notified there are 910 changes in the BIM file, which is totally weird.

[lbendlin]

What do you still need the BIM file for when you use the PBIP folder structure?