Git is generally insufferable when it comes to these. Diffing YAMLs is even worse, and it gets downright hideous when the specific document you're working with betrays YAML's rules about orderedness (the document is order invariant, while YAML is ordered). In that case, even most semantic diffing tools become unusable. This is a thing with JSON too, arrays are ordered.

I've been recently using dyff [0] to diff YAMLs in an order invariant way, and it's been absolutely liberating. Couldn't help with version control, but it's still night and day.

[0] https://github.com/homeport/dyff