Re: git-latexdiff: Git and Latexdiff working together

From: Tim Haga <timhaga@ebene6.org>
Date: Feb 14, 2012, 20:19 UTC
Message-ID: <20120214211917.53ef9df6@sirion>
In-Reply-To: <vpq7gzph7mi.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Hi,

your tool seems very useful for LaTeX users, especially in scientific work. I could not test it in detail until now, but i had two or three runs with an article draft and it seems to work.

Long story short, i would appreciate it if your tool would be integrated in git.

T.

Am Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:22:45 +0100 schrieb Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>:

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> Hi,
> 
> You may know latexdiff, a neat tool to visualize differences between
> LaTeX files (it annotates your .tex file with colors for removed/added
> parts, producing another compilable .tex file).
> 
> I wrote a little shell-script that allows one to use latexdiff on files
> versionned by Git, with e.g.
> 
>   git latexdiff HEAD^ --main foo.tex --output foo.pdf
> 
> Essentially, it does a checkout of the old and new revisions, and calls
> latexdiff + pdflatex for you.
> 
> The result is attached in case anyone is interested.
> 
> It may be relevant to add this to contrib/ in git.git. If anyone's
> interested, let me know, and I'll resend the code in the form of a
> patch doing that.
> 
> Regards,
>