Git LaTeXdiff

git-latexdiff is a tool to graphically visualize differences between different versions of a LaTeX file. Technically, it is a wrapper around git and latexdiff.

If your LaTeX source is split accross several *.tex files, git-latexdiff can call latexpand to expand it before running latexdiff (this usually works better than using latexdiff --flatten).

To get the manpage (needed to get git-latexdiff --help to work), you need the a2x tool from the asciidoc package.

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git-latexdiff’s main author is Matthieu Moy. The script is freely distributable and modifyable under the terms of the simplified BSD licence.

Documentation

The documentation is available through these commands:

git-latexdiff -h
git-latexdiff --help-examples

If you installed the manpage properly, you can get the same documentation with:

man git-latexdiff

Installation

Using the Makefile

To install git-latexdiff in Git’s exec-path and generate and install a manpage, run this command from the root directory of git-latexdiff’s distribution:

make install

If Git was installed as root, you will need to run this command as root, for example using:

sudo make install

If it fails, you may try installing only the script (you can still read the documentation using git latexdiff -h):

make install-bin

Once the script git-latexdiff and the manpage git-latexdiff.1 are installed, you’re ready to go (no configuration file to edit).

Manual installation

A simple way to install git-latexdiff is to copy the file git-latexdiff anywhere in your $PATH (e.g. in /usr/local/bin, run echo $PATH get the list) or in Git’s exec-path (run git --exec-path to get it).

To get the documentation, you need to generate it:

make git-latexdiff.1

and then copy git-latexdiff.1 in your man-path (run git --man-path to get the location).