Currently, when gearset deploys XML to git, it seems to run it through a reformatter, which creates superfluous changes in git. These changes cause extremely large deltas, which are hard to read, increase the difficulty of merges and the likelihood of conflicts, and make working with any other metadata tooling (like SFDX) difficult.

For example, here is part of a delta gearset commited for a profile.xml:
diff --git a/force-app/main/default/profiles/Commissions.profile-meta.xml b/force-app/main/default/profiles/Commissions.profile-meta.xml
index 8b11e6b7..3d640a50 100644
--- a/force-app/main/default/profiles/Commissions.profile-meta.xml
+++ b/force-app/main/default/profiles/Commissions.profile-meta.xml
@@ -1,10 +1,27 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<Profile xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Profile xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
+ <custom>true</custom>
+ <profileActionOverrides>
+ <actionName>Tab</actionName>

Note that it lowercased the "UTF-8" encoding and removed the newline after the xml prolog.