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Synopsis
latex-git-log [options] [file] ...
Options:
--author set this if you want the author included
--width set the width in cm of the commit message field in the LaTeX table
--git-c-add set an base URL to link to a commit
--user set a github user to derive the base URL
--repo set a github repository to derive the base URL
--lang language of the legend and all strings in the output
--version, -v print version of this script
--help brief help message
--man full documentation
--range specify a git revision range
Options
--width Set the width in cm of the commit message field in the LaTeX table. If this parameter is not set
then the table is not vertically limited. That means that if you have a very long commit message
then the table will probably not fit on the page and you will get a "Overfull" error message from
TeX.
In this case you should specify the width of the column containing the commit messages. I
normally use something like --width=14 for DIN A4 in landscape.
--git-c-add
Set an base URL to link to a commit. This script will automatically try to use the base URL for
github.
--lang Set the language of the legend and all strings in the output. By default the language of your
system is used but you can overwrite this with this parameter.
Currently this script only supports English and German. If you need a translation to another
language then you can either create a .po file or I can register this project on one of those
websites for online translation.
Example
You can use it like this:
latex-git-log --width=6 --lang=en > example-output.tex
Dependencies
Of this script
This script requires the following Perl modules:
IPC::System::Simple
Locale::Maketext::Simple
Everything else should already be installed.
To compile the output
The table is using the longtable package and the links to a web resource for each commit use the \href
macro from hyperref. So these two packages have to be loaded.
Furthermore you need to defined the macro \longtableendfoot which will be expanded on the bottom of every
page if the table will be continued on the next page. You can define it to a localized message to inform
the reader that this table is not complete and will be continued.
Description
This program will output the entire version history as table written in LaTeX if it is executed within a
git repository. When file argument(s) are given, only the history that changed these file(s) will be
output.
It is intended that you redirect the standard output of this script to a file which can then be included
from your main LaTeX document.
Because the table can be very large you might want to put the thing on a landscape page.
Version
1.1.0
Author
Robin Schneider <ypid@riseup.net>
Development
CTAN: https://ctan.org/pkg/latex-git-log
Source code repository: https://github.com/ypid/typesetting/tree/master/scripts/latex-git-log
Please report bugs and feature requests at https://github.com/ypid/typesetting/issues
Bugs and limitations
• The translation features does not seem to work. So this script is unable to output German. English
works.
License and Copyright
Copyright (C) 2012-2013,2017,2019-2020,2024 Robin Schneider <ypid@riseup.net> This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.