LATEXDIFF-VC(1)LATEXDIFF-VC(1)NAMElatexdiff-vc - wrapper script that calls latexdiff for different
versions of a file under version management (CVS, RCS or SVN)
SYNOPSISlatexdiff-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
DESCRIPTIONlatexdiff-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.
OPTIONS--rcs, --svn, --cvs, --git or --hg
Set the version system. 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.
-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 recent version checked into
RCS.
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 extension ".tex", 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
subdirectories 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.)
--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.
--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
installsed). (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.
--help or -h
Show help text
--version
Show version number
All other options are passed on to "latexdiff".
SEE ALSO
latexdiff
PORTABILITYlatexdiff-vc uses external commands and is therefore limited to Unix-
like systems. It also requires the 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.
BUG REPORTING
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").
AUTHOR
Version 1.1.1 Copyright (C) 2005-2015 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.
perl v5.18.2 2015-12-26 LATEXDIFF-VC(1)
