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quanticle on Oct 17, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Markdeep

Version control. If I add an ASCII art diagram to a text document, I can git diff it, and see that the ASCII art diagram was added. If my documentation is is in PDF, I can keep it in version control, but I lose a lot of the advantages that version control provides because PDF is a binary format.

JupiterMoon on Oct 17, 2015 | [–]

But if you create the pdf using a script (e.g. latex tikz) then this is in your version control instead.

nathancahill on Oct 17, 2015 | | [–]

Yes, once we have more intelligent diffs. Line by line isn't enough anymore.

revelation on Oct 17, 2015 | [–]

What diagram tool uses PDFs? PDFs are a build artifact like any other binary.

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