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On 07/12/12 12:45, Gregory Jefferis wrote:
> 
> On 6 Dec 2012, at 08:05, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> 
>> I agree with this comment - I wanted to use the comparison tool for 
>> comparing two revisions, and
>> the result was simply unusable.
> 
> Has anyone tried using latexdiff for change comparison in not merging? 
> Presumably a small script to export both versions to latex, invoke latexdiff 
> and then generate the marked-up PDF (which is what you get with latexdiff) 
> would work. For latexdiff there are already scripts to handle git revisions 
> which should allow one to diff a pair of arbitrary revisions in a git 
> repository.

This should work, but it would be really nice if these changes were on LyX 
level and that one could
save a file LyX file containing the differences as tracked changes.

To see what has changed in the text, the latexdiff approach surely would work.

Rainer


> 
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1325/using-latexdiff-with-git
> http://eothred.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/latexdiff-and-git/
> 
>> But a compare tool from commandline would be exceedingly useful for VCS.
> 
> +1.
> 
> Greg.
> 


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