On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:13:40AM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > My latex usage is all from a past life, so I didn't even try out your > > tool. But I did wonder what your rationale was in making a separate > > command as opposed to providing a script that could be plugged in as an > > external diff. > > My LaTeX documents are usually sets of .tex files including each other, > plus figures and possibly Makefiles. So, git-latexdiff does a full > checkout of the old and new tree, then runs latexdiff on the main file, > and then compiles the result. > [...] Ah, yeah. I didn't think about the fact that there's a whole ecosystem of files that go into producing the output. > That said, that may be just me not knowing diff drivers or difftools > well enough. No, your analysis is right. A diff driver wouldn't work well at all. Thanks for satisfying my curiosity. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html