From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-latexdiff: Git and Latexdiff working together
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:31:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120214233151.GA25651@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpq4nut6maj.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:13:40AM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> 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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-14 23:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-14 13:22 git-latexdiff: Git and Latexdiff working together Matthieu Moy
2012-02-14 20:19 ` Tim Haga
2012-02-14 21:16 ` Jeff King
2012-02-14 23:13 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-02-14 23:31 ` Jeff King [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20120214233151.GA25651@sigill.intra.peff.net \
--to=peff@peff.net \
--cc=Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).