diff against the working directory with git-latexdiff
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The command git-latexdiff -v --main file.tex hash1 --
just works for me. git-latexdiff does a temporary checkout in a directory with a unique name under /tmp/. Are you using the latest version of git-latexdiff?
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user2740
Updated on September 17, 2020Comments
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user2740 about 3 years
I use git for my latex document and I want to diff against the working directory.
MWE:\documentclass{article} \begin{document} a \end{document}
add git-latexdiff to $PATH in .bashrc
PATH=$PATH:~/path/to/dir/git-latexdiff/
setup git:
git init; git add .; git commit -m "initial commit"
change content of file from
a
toaa
git add file.tex; git commit -m "2nd commit"
change content of file from
aa
toaaa
(use git log to see hashes for commits)
git-latexdiff -v --main file.tex hash1 hash2
(-v is verbose, --main specifies the main file, hashes identify commits)
works just fine.But when I try to commit against the uncommitted working directory:
user2740$ git-latexdiff -v --main file.tex hash1 -- Auto-detecting PDF viewer ... xdg-open. /usr/bin/latexpand Creating temporary directories ... done. Temporary directories: /tmp/git-latexdiff.3840/old and /tmp/git-latexdiff.3840/new Checking out old and new version ...ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘./file.tex’: File exists
version:
user2740$ git-latexdiff --version 1.0 #downloaded 09.05.2014
Works Now:
Make sure to use the latest version!
Execute only in your desired directory even for
version
information. (at least for version v1.1.2-1-ga985a4f) -
user2740 over 8 yearsFor some reason I used to access git-latexdiff via a symlink in /usr/local/bin, yielding a 'Permission denied' unless using
sudo
. Adding it in .bashrc solves that problem. I updated the question to the latest version of git-latexdiff. -
Matthieu Moy over 8 yearsThere have been several fixes related to your problem since then. Please, upgrade to v1.1.1 that I just pushed and let me know if the problem persists or disappears.
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user2740 over 8 yearsnow i get:
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
when callinggit-latexdiff
. calling it in its own directory works however -
Matthieu Moy over 8 yearsThere was a bug in
git latexdiff --version
if you installed it other than bygit clone
-ing the repo. But you anyway need to rungit latexdiff
from a Git directory, that's the point of the tool. -
user2740 over 8 yearsMy bad. I was testing
git-latexdiff --version
in an arbitrary directory because I just wanted to see whether the right version was in the $PATH. I then thought the error message was referring to thegit-latexdiff
-repo as the value for version is now extracted from there. My MWE works now! Thank you so much for your continued efforts.