1. A computer-implemented method of managing a file-based versioning of data objects, the method comprising: receiving, from a back-end computing system, a transport request that comprises an updated transport object, the updated transport object comprising serialized database content of a data object; converting the serialized database content of the updated transport object to file-based content; storing the file-based content of the updated transport object in a repository over a previously-stored version of the transport object; and updating a database that comprises a change history of the data object based on the storage of the file-based content in the repository.