Flatten and latexdiff-vc

[diego898]

Hello,

I am trying to use latexdiff-vc to compare changes across multiple files which are included in one main project file. I currently have all of this in a git repository. When I run:

➜  MyProjectFolder git:(master) ✗ latexdiff-vc --flatten -r mymailfile.tex
Guess you are using GIT ...
Working on  mymailfile.tex
Checking out old dir into: /var/folders/mh/f311201s7p1dvk5sp293lmh40000gn/T/c3hfjP6NQt/latexdiff-vc- (rev: )
usage: git archive [options] <tree-ish> [<path>...]
   or: git archive --list
   or: git archive --remote <repo> [--exec <cmd>] [options] <tree-ish> [<path>...]
   or: git archive --remote <repo> [--exec <cmd>] --list

    --format <fmt>        archive format
    --prefix <prefix>     prepend prefix to each pathname in the archive
    -o, --output <file>   write the archive to this file
    --worktree-attributes
                          read .gitattributes in working directory
    -v, --verbose         report archived files on stderr
    -0                    store only
    -1                    compress faster
    -9                    compress better

    -l, --list            list supported archive formats

    --remote <repo>       retrieve the archive from remote repository <repo>
    --exec <command>      path to the remote git-upload-archive command

Running latexdiff
Input file /var/folders/mh/f311201s7p1dvk5sp293lmh40000gn/T/c3hfjP6NQt/latexdiff-vc-/mymailfile.tex does not exist. at /usr/texbin/latexdiff line 1008, <DATA> line 24764.
Something went wrong in latexdiff. Deleting mymailfile.tex-diff.tex and abort

I dont understand that strange error message about the file not existing? Notice the strange . between exist and at?

As it says on the docs on CTAN:

The generic usage of this function is : latexdiff-vc --flatten -r rev1
[-r rev2] master.tex where master.tex is the project file containing the
highest level of includes etc.

[ftilmann]

Can you try whether latexdiff-vc --flatten -r HEAD mymailfile.tex works and let me know? The form you have chosen is supposed to work as an abbreviation for this, but as I have no git repository with latex files ready to check out, it would help if you could perform this check. The . between exist and at is trivial - the part beyond 'at' is generated by Perl's die command, and the part before the specific message (for good measure I fixed this for future reference). But this message is just the symptom of the failure of the git command beforehand.

[diego898]

Hello! Yes latexdiff-vc --flatten -r HEAD mymailfile.tex works perfectly.

[ftilmann]

Thanks. That was an easy fix d9db4cb