run-latexdiff

A command line tool to create latexdiff pdf's for different git commits. Modified from scm-latexdiff. All credits go to scm-latexdiff.

INSTALL

This tool uses distutils for installation. The following command installs the tool on your machine:

python setup.py install

To install to a non-standard directory tree (e.g. in your home directory) use --prefix:

python setup.py install --prefix=/home/spam/

Do remember to add /home/spam/lib/python2.x/site-packages/ to your PYTHONPATH environment variable.

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USAGE:

### find help
run-latexdiff --help (or -h)
### running example
run-latexdiff --old OLD:FILE --new NEW:FILE --diff diff.tex
run-latexdiff -o f126:ms/old.tex -n jafo12:ms/new.tex -d ms/diff.tex

where:

• OLD: old revision id, local for non-commited
• NEW: new revision id, local for non-commited
• FILE: filename of the file you want to compare

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Notes

• Must run in the directory with .git file.
• When referring to a git revision, not the whole sha1 key is needed, you can just provide the first few numbers.
• Multiple tex file may supported but not tested.
• If the tex and its associated file in the subdirectory, just run pdflatex manually to generate the pdf file.

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License

Copyright © 2012, Paul Hiemstra paul@numbertheory.nl, Ronald van Haren ronald@archlinux.org. This file is part of scm-latexdiff.

scm-latexdiff is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version.

scm-latexdiff is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.