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LATEXDIFF-VC(1) |
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LATEXDIFF-VC(1) |
latexdiff-vc - wrapper script that calls latexdiff for different versions of a
file under version management (CVS, RCS or SVN)
latexdiff-vc [ latexdiff-options ] [ latexdiff-vc-options ]
-r [rev1] [-r rev2] file1.tex [
file2.tex ...]
or
latexdiff-vc [ latexdiff-options ] [
latexdiff-vc-options ][ --postscript | --pdf ]
old.tex new.tex
latexdiff-vc is a wrapper script that applies latexdiff to a file,
or multiple files under version control (git, subversion (SVN), mercurial
(hg), CVS, RCS), and optionally runs the sequence of
"latex" and
"dvips" or
"pdflatex" commands necessary to produce pdf
or postscript output of the difference tex file(s). It can also be applied to
a pair of files to automatise the generation of difference file in postscript
or pdf format.
- --rcs, --svn, --cvs, --git or --hg
- Set the version control system used. If no version system is specified,
latexdiff-vc will venture a guess.
latexdiff-cvs, latexdiff-rcs etc are variants of latexdiff-vc
which default to the respective versioning system. However, this default
can still be overridden using the options above.
Note that hg needs to support the
"--root" option (version >=
2.9)
- -r, -r rev or --revision,
--revision=rev
- Choose revision (under RCS, CVS, SVN, GIT or HG). One or two -r
options can be specified, and they result in different behaviour:
- latexdiff-vc -r file.tex ...
- compares file.tex with the most recently checked-in version
checked.
- latexdiff-vc -r rev1 file.tex ...
- compares file.tex with revision rev1.
- latexdiff-vc -r rev1 -r rev2 file.tex ...
- compares revisions rev1 and rev2 of file.tex.
Multiple files can be specified for all of the above options.
All files must have the extensions
".tex",
".bbl", or
".flt", though.
- latexdiff-vc old.tex new.tex
- compares two files.
The name of the difference file is generated automatically and
reported to stdout.
- -d or --dir -d path or
--dir=path
- Rather than appending the string "diff"
and optionally the version numbers given to the output-file, this will
prepend a directory name "diff" to the
original filename, creating the directory and sub-directories should they
not exist already. This is particularly useful in order to clone a
complete directory hierarchy. Optionally, a pathname path can be
specified, which is prepended instead of
"diff".
- --flatten,--flatten=keep-intermediate
- If combined with "--git",
"--svn" or
"--hg" option or the corresponding
modes, check out the revisions to compare in a separate temporary
directory, and then pass on option
"--flatten" to latexdiff. The directory
in which "latexdiff-vc" is invoked
defines the subtree which will be checked out. Note that if additional
files are needed which are not included in the flatten procedure (package
files, included graphics), they need to be accessible in the current
directory. If you use bibtex, it is recommended to include the
".bbl" file in the version management.
The generic usage of this function is :
"latexdiff-vc --flatten -r rev1 [-r rev2]
master.tex" where master.tex is the project file containing
the highest level of includes etc.
With
"--flatten=keep-intermediate", the
intermediate revision snapshots are kept in the current directory
(Default is to store them in a temporary directory and delete them after
generating the diff file.)
- --only-changes
- Post-process the output such that only pages with changes on them are
displayed. This requires the use of subtype ZLABEL in latexdiff, which
will be set automatically, but any manually set -s option will be
overruled (also requires zref package to be installed). This option also
disables internal links (as implemented by hyperref package) and graphics
markup. (note that this option must be combined with --ps or --pdf to make
sense)
- --force
- Overwrite existing diff files without asking for confirmation. Default
behaviour is to ask for confirmation before overwriting an existing
difference file.
- --run
- run latex command on diff file after generation of diff file.
- --dvi
- run latex and dvixxx commands after generation of diff file.
- -c configfile =item --config var1=val1,var2=val2,... or
-c var1=val1,..
- Set configuration variables for latexdiff and latexdiff-vc. The option can
be repeated to set different variables (as an alternative to the
comma-separated list). Available variables for latexdiff-vc:
- "LATEXDIFF" latexdiff command (e.g. latexdiff-fast,
latexdiff-so). This command should support the option
"--interaction=batchmode"
- "LATEX" latex command (e.g. pdflatex, lualatex)
- "DVI2" Command for conversion of dvi file (e.g. dvips,
dvipdf)
- "BIBTEX" Command replacing bibtex
All other config variables are passed to latexdiff. Explicitly set
configuration changes always override implicit changes by the following
shortcut options --fast, --so, --ps and
--pdf.
- --fast or --so
- Use "latexdiff-fast" or
"latexdiff-so", respectively (instead of
"latexdiff").
- --ps or --postscript
- Generate postscript output from difference file. This will run the
sequence "latex; latex; dvips" on the
difference file (do not use this option in the rare cases, where three
"latex" commands are required if you
care about correct referencing). If the difference file contains a
"\bibliography" tag, run the sequence
"latex; bibtex; latex;
latex; dvips".
- --pdf
- Generate pdf output from difference file using
"pdflatex". This will run the sequence
"pdflatex; pdflatex" on the difference
file, or "pdflatex; bibtex; pdflatex;
pdflatex" for files requiring bibtex. Note that this is not
just a shortcut for setting configuration variable but also triggers some
special behaviour.
- --show-config
- Show values of configuration variables.
- --help or -h
- Show help text
- --version
- Show version number
All other options are passed on to
"latexdiff".
latexdiff-vc uses external commands and is therefore dependent on the
system architecture; it has been tested mainly on Unix-like systems. It also
requires a version control system and latex to be installed on the system to
make use of all features. Modules from Perl 5.8 or higher are required.
Please submit bug reports using the issue tracker of the github repository page
https://github.com/ftilmann/latexdiff.git, or send them to tilmann
-- AT -- gfz-potsdam.de. Include the version number of latexdiff-vc
(option "--version").
Version 1.2.1 Copyright (C) 2005-2017 Frederik Tilmann
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 3
Contributors: S Utcke, H Bruyninckx; some ideas have been inspired by
git-latexdiff bash script. C. Junghans: Mercurial Support.
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