I started using gitinfo a while ago, from version 1.x to version 2.x. I used the Git hooks mechanisms that were suggested in the documentation. Hence this method works well in many situations; it is, IMHO, tedious and not straightforward to maintain.
Since I'm a user of latexmk, I decided to build a small tool that integrates smoothly with it and gitinfo2.
Download gitinfo2.pm
Simply download gitinfo2.pm and place at the root folder of your project.
Hook in latexmk
Add the following line at the end of the file .latexmkrc that lays at the root folder of your project (create it if it doesn't exist).
do './gitinfo2.pm';Simply use gitinfo
In your LaTeX document, please add the following line (feel free to add extra parameters as described in
gitinfo2 can be used now. You might want to have look to its documentation)
i.e.
\usepackage[mark]{gitinfo2}Build your document with latexmk
By default, this module will look for release tags that match the following that starts with a digit (that fit the following regex "[0-9]*.*").
You can use a custom release tags matcher, i.e. in case where version number are prefixed with the letter "v", the hook code should be adapted by setting it through the a variable named GIT2TM_OPTIONS:
%GI2TM_OPTIONS=(RELEASE_MATCHER=>"v[0-9]*.*");
do './gitinfo2.pm';Simply download the PDF manual of gitinfo2-latexmk . This PDF document contains more-or-less the content of this README.
gitinfo2-latexmk may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License: either version 1.3 of this license, or (at your option) any later version.