Punchdev — notes on Unity's serialized formatsTechnical notes on Unity prefabs, scenes, variant chains and version control.https://voxcub.com/articles/2026-08-05T00:00:00ZPunchdevsupport@voxcub.comEvery prefab variant is born with 11 overrideshttps://voxcub.com/articles/unity-prefab-variant-default-overrides.html2026-08-05T00:00:00Z2026-08-05T00:00:00ZCreate a Unity prefab variant, change nothing, and the file already contains eleven entries in m_Modifications — twenty-one if the root is a RectTransform.Why a text diff of a .prefab file lies to youhttps://voxcub.com/articles/unity-prefab-diff-fileid-guid.html2026-08-05T00:00:00Z2026-08-05T00:00:00ZLine-based diffs of Unity assets mislead in four specific ways: identity, reparenting, serialization noise and format corners.Resolving Unity scene merge conflicts in Githttps://voxcub.com/articles/unity-scene-merge-conflicts-git.html2026-08-05T00:00:00Z2026-08-05T00:00:00ZWhat UnityYAMLMerge handles, what it cannot, and the checks to run before staging a merged scene.