Re: git-latexdiff: Git and Latexdiff working together

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 14, 2012, 23:31 UTC
Message-ID: <20120214233151.GA25651@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <vpq4nut6maj.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:13:40AM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > My latex usage is all from a past life, so I didn't even try out your
> > tool.  But I did wonder what your rationale was in making a separate
> > command as opposed to providing a script that could be plugged in as an
> > external diff.
> 
> My LaTeX documents are usually sets of .tex files including each other,
> plus figures and possibly Makefiles. So, git-latexdiff does a full
> checkout of the old and new tree, then runs latexdiff on the main file,
> and then compiles the result.
> [...]

Ah, yeah. I didn't think about the fact that there's a whole ecosystem of files that go into producing the output.

> That said, that may be just me not knowing diff drivers or difftools
> well enough.

No, your analysis is right. A diff driver wouldn't work well at all.

Thanks for satisfying my curiosity.

-Peff