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This adds a debugging utility for developers that makes it easier to what's stored in a .blend file. Some possible use cases: * Figure out if some specific data has been written to the .blend file. * Check the order of data in the .blend file. * Work towards having less runtime dependent changes in .blend files (it's easier to diff the textual output). It is **not** a goal to provide a general human and machine readable form of .blend files (like xml/json files). That would be way more involved. The way to use this is to set `GENERATE_DEBUG_BLEND_FILE` to `1` at the top of `writefile.cc`. Then, whenever Blender saves a .blend file, it will generate a `.debug.txt` file next to it. There is already `blend2json.py` which serves a similar purpose but is a separate program that can be executed on the .blend file afterwards. With the `--full-data` flag it outputs comparable data, but the output is a bit more verbose and it needs an extra step that can be avoided by generating the `.debug.txt` file immediately. For certain use cases, `GENERATE_DEBUG_BLEND_FILE` can be more convenient. It's also much simpler to add log additional data in that file that is produced during the blend-write process. Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133063
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