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> And I don’t know anything else that shows git blame for who changed what in my diagram, when.

You could do this with any diagrams-as-code tool, no?



Mermaid is sort of a defacto standard because github auto renders it inside markdown files.


I think he's saying you can click and edit on the diagram, which mermaid doesn't support. This does propagate back into the source.

I think you are talking about "just change the text and regenerate", which achieves much the same goal.

I'm not sure in what cases the former is better.


Such as?




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