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 (CVS, RCS or SVN), 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, or --git
Set the version system. If no version system is specified,
latexdiff-vc will venture a guess.
latexdiff-cvs and latexdiff-rcs 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 or GIT). 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".
--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.
--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 RCS version control system and latex
to be installed on the system. Modules from Perl 5.8 or higher are
required.
BUG REPORTING
Please submit bug reports through
the latexdiff project page I<http://developer.berlios.de/projects/latexdiff/> or send
to I<tilmann@gfz-potsdam.de>. Include the serial number of I<latexdiff-vc>
(option C<--version>)
.
=head1 AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 2005,2012 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
perl v5.12.4 2012-12-16 LATEXDIFF-VC(1)
