Re: git-latexdiff: Git and Latexdiff working together

[Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>]

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.

A diff driver would work well for a standalone file, but I don't think
you can plug it in this kind of situation.

Also, git-latexdiff has a few hacks like detecting the main latex file
automatically by grepping all .tex files for "documentclass", detecting
the presence of a Makefile to compile the document, ... that would
hardly fit in a diff driver.

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

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Matthieu Moy
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