=========== scm-latexdiff ===========

A command line tool to create diff pdf’s from git and mercurial repos. The script will automatically detect if the repo is git or hg. The result is a pdf with the differences between the revisions, diff.pdf.

Usage:

scm-latexdiff OLD:FILE NEW:FILE DIFF_DIR

where:

OLD:    old revision id, local for non-commited
NEW:    new revision id, local for non-commited
FILE:   filename of the file you want to diff
DIFF_DIR: diff file directory

Examples

for git

scm-latexdiff 87213:draft/spam.tex 97123:draft/spam.tex draft

A sample of the diff.pdf:

Notes

I kept diff.aux, diff.tex files and added DIFF_DIR to allow troublesome when sometimes Bibtex does not work. Please run this script under root directory for the repo.

INSTALL

The code is hosted on github.

This tool uses distutils for installation. The following command installs the tool on your machine:

python setup.py install

To install to a non-standard directory tree (e.g. in your home directory) use --prefix:

python setup.py install --prefix=/home/spam/

Do remember to add /home/spam/lib/python2.x/site-packages/ to your PYTHONPATH environment variable.