latex-git-log(1) Robin Schneider latex-git-log(1) latex-git-log - Generates the version history of a git project as LaTeX source code.
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
o 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/>.
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