latexdiff-vc

#!/usr/bin/env perl 
#
# latexdiff-vc  - wrapper script for applying latexdiff to rcs managed files
#                 and for automatised creation of postscript or pdf from difference file
#
#   Copyright (C) 2005-20  F J Tilmann (tilmann@gfz-potsdam.de)
#
# Repository:         https://github.com/ftilmann/latexdiff
# CTAN page:          http://www.ctan.org/pkg/latexdiff
#
#
#   Contributors: S Utcke, H Bruyninckx, C Junghans
#
#    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/>.
#
# Detailed usage information at the end of the file
#
# TODO/IDEAS: - option to call external pre-processing codes
# version 1.3.2:
#    - bug fix: when setting config variables with the command lines it is now possible to use quotes to includes spaces in the value, e.g. -c LATEX="pdflatex --shell-escape"
#    - bug fix: --only-changes is not compatible with graphics markup. --graphics-markup=none is now set automatically
#    - when --pdf or --postscript is select, then replace tildes in version names with underscores in output file (e.g. diffHEAD_1 instead of diff HEAD~1. This is necessary because pdflatex strips ~n strings at the end of the filename, when generating output file names

# version 1.3.1:
#    - bug fix, import File::Path explicitly as otherwise mkpath is not found
# version 1.3.0 ((7 October 2018)
#    - option --only-changes with hyperref will suppress hyperrefs (pull request jprotze)_
#    - option --only-changes now moves (rather than copies) file with only changes 
# version 1.2.1 (22 June 2017):
#    - update: use qpdf (instead of pdftk) to select particular pages of output (pull request #102 submitted by Tom Scogland via github). This was necessary because pdftk is being deprecated. pdftk is still used as a fall-back
#    - bug fix: --hg option was not recognised (partially fixes github issue #93 )
#    - wrap passed-through options to latexdiff in quotation marks (fix github issue #58 )
#    - program names for latexdiff, latex, dvips, bibtex configurable (fixes issue #40)
#
# version 1.2.0:
#    - deprecation fix: left brace in RegEx now needs to be escaped
#
# version 1.1.1:
#    - better detection of RCS system 
#    - undocumented option --debug/--nodebug to override default setting for debug mode (Default: 0)#
#    - bug fix: --flatten option combined with --pdf caused confusion of old and new file
#
# version 1.1.0:
#
#      - with option --flatten and version control option, checkout the whole tree into a temporary directory
#        (use svn info + checkout ; git archive )
#       - add option --only-changes to output only changed pages (in combination with --ps or --pdf option)
# version 1.0.4:
#	- [ Patch #3486 contributed by cbarbu] add additional compilation for styles using chbar + avoid pdf/postscripts repeat in the code
# version 1.0.3: Bug fix: replace use of system('cp...') with File::Copy::copy (Patch contributed by D. Bremner)
#                 Quotes around system call file arguments to allow filenames with spaces (Patch contributed by ssteve)
# version 1.0.2: - option --so to use latexdiff-so
# version 1.0.1 (change version numbering to match that of latexdiff)
#   - Option --fast to use latexdiff-fast, 
#   - git support (thanks to Bjorn Magnus Mathisen, Santi Béjar, Pietro Battiston and Stefan Alfredson for patches) - UNTESTED
# version 0.25:
#   - bbl is allowed as alternative extension (instead of .tex)
# version 0.26a
#   - Bug fix: it copes now correctly with the possibility that there are no changes between current
#         and archived version
use Getopt::Long ;
use Pod::Usage qw/pod2usage/ ;
use File::Temp qw/tempdir/ ;
use File::Basename qw/dirname/;
use File::Copy;
use File::Path;

use strict ;
use warnings ;

my $versionstring=<<EOF ;
This is LATEXDIFF-VC 1.3.2
  (c) 2005-2021 F J Tilmann
EOF

# output debug and intermediate files, set to 0 in final distribution
my $debug=0; 


# Option names
my ($version,$help,$fast,$showconfig,$so,$postscript,$pdf,$onlychanges,$flatten,$force,$dir,$cvs,$rcs,$svn,$git,$hg,
    $run,$rundvi2,$diffcmd,$patchcmd,@revs,@configlist);
# for passing through config options to latexdiff:
my ($configlatexdiff,@config,$config,$assign);

# Preset Variables
#my $latexdiff="latexdiff"; # Program for making the comparison
#my $latexcmd="latex"; # latex compiler if not further identified
my $vc="";
my $tempdir=tempdir(CLEANUP => 1);   # generate a temp dir, which will automatically be deleted at program exit
# Variables
my ($file1,$file2,$diff,$diffbase,$rootdir,$answer,$options,$infile,$append,$dirname,$cwd);
my (@files,@ldoptions,@tmpfiles,@ptmpfiles,@difffiles,$extracomp); # ,


# keep commands to be used in config hash
my (%CFG)=( 
   LATEX     => "latex",
   LATEXDIFF => "latexdiff",
   DVI2      => "dvips",
   BIBTEX    => "bibtex"
   );



Getopt::Long::Configure('pass_through','bundling');

GetOptions('revision|r:s' => \@revs,
           'cvs' => \$cvs,
           'rcs' => \$rcs,
           'svn' => \$svn,
           'git' => \$git,
           'hg' => \$hg,
           'dir|d:s' => \$dir,
	   'run' => \$run,
	   'dvi' => \$rundvi2,
	   'fast' => \$fast,
	   'so' => \$so,
           'postscript|ps' => \$postscript,
           'pdf' => \$pdf,
           'force' => \$force,
	   'only-changes' => \$onlychanges,
	   'flatten:s' => \$flatten,
	   'config|c=s' => \@configlist,
	   'show-config' => \$showconfig,
           'version' => \$version,
	   'help|h' => \$help,
	   'debug!' => \$debug);

##print STDERR "DEBUG 1:revs($#revs): " . join(":",@revs) . "\n";
##print STDERR "DEBUG 1:ARGV($#ARGV): " . join(":",@ARGV) . "\n";

$extracomp = join(" ",grep(/BAR/,@ARGV)); # special latexdiff options requiring additional compilation

if ( $help ) {
  pod2usage(1) ;
}

if ( $version ) {
  print STDERR $versionstring ;  
  exit 0; 
}

if ( $so ) {
  $CFG{LATEXDIFF}='latexdiff-so';
}
if ( $fast ) { 
  die "Cannot specify more than one of --fast or --so " if ($so);
  $CFG{LATEXDIFF}='latexdiff-fast';
}

if ( $cvs ) {
  $vc="CVS";
}
if ( $rcs ) {
  die "Cannot specify more than one of --cvs, --rcs, --svn --git or --hg." if ($vc);
  $vc="RCS";
}
if ( $svn ) {
  die "Cannot specify more than one of --cvs, --rcs, --svn --git or --hg." if ($vc);
  $vc="SVN";
}
if ( $git ) {
  die "Cannot specify more than one of --cvs, --rcs, --svn --git or --hg." if ($vc);
  $vc="GIT";
}
if ( $hg ) {
  die "Cannot specify more than one of --cvs, --rcs, --svn --git or --hg." if ($vc);
  $vc="HG";
}

if ( $pdf ) {
  $CFG{LATEX} = "pdflatex";
  $run=1;
} elsif ( $postscript ) {
  $CFG{LATEX} = "latex";
  $rundvi2=1;
}

if ( $rundvi2 ) {
  $run=1;
}

# setting config variables from command line. Explicitly set configuration options take precedence over convenience options,
# therefore this is executed last
@config=();
foreach $config ( @configlist ) {
  if (-f $config || lc $config eq '/dev/null' ) {
    open(FILE,$config) or die ("Couldn't open configuration file $config: $!");
    while (<FILE>) {
      chomp;
      next if /^\s*#/ || /^\s*%/ || /^\s*$/ ;
      push (@config,$_);
    }
    close(FILE);
  }
  else {
#    foreach ( split(",",$config) ) {
#      push @config,$_;
#    }
     push @config,split(",",$config)
  }
}

$configlatexdiff="";
foreach $assign ( @config ) {
###    print STDERR "assign:|$assign|\n";
    $assign=~ m/\s*(\w*)\s*=\s*(.*?)\s*$/ 
      or die "Illegal assignment |$assign| in configuration list (must be variable=value)";  
  if ( defined($CFG{$1})) {
    # known latexdiff-vc option
    $CFG{$1}=$2;
  } else {
    # unknown option, assume it is a latexdiff configuration variable
    $configlatexdiff .= "$1=$2,";
  }
}
# delete last comma inv $configlatexdiff if present
$configlatexdiff =~ s/,$// ;

if ($showconfig) {
  print "# Configuration variables (latexdiff-vc):\n";
  foreach ( keys %CFG ) {
    print "$_=$CFG{$_}\n";
  }
  exit 0;
}


# check whether the first file name or first passed-through option for latexdiff got misinterpreted as an option to an empty -r option
if ( @revs && ( -f $revs[$#revs] || $revs[$#revs] =~ /^-/ ) ) {
  push @ARGV,$revs[$#revs];
  $revs[$#revs]="";
}
# check whether the first file name or first passed-through option for latexdiff got misinterpreted as an option to an empty -d option
if ( defined($dir) && ( -f $dir || $dir =~ /^-/ ) ) {
  push @ARGV,$dir;
  $dir="";
}
# check whether the first file name or first passed-through option for latexdiff got misinterpreted as an option to an empty --flatten option

if ( defined($flatten) && ( -f $flatten || $flatten =~ /^-/ ) ) {
  unshift @ARGV,$flatten;
  $flatten="";
}

print STDERR "DEBUG: PDF $pdf latexdiff-vc command line: ", join(" ",@ARGV), "\n" if $debug; 
###exit;

$file2=pop @ARGV;
( defined($file2) && $file2 =~ /\.(tex|bbl|flt)$/ ) or pod2usage("Must specify at least one tex, bbl or flt file");

if (! $vc && scalar(@revs)>0 ) {
  # have to guess $vc
  # check whether we have a special name
  if ( $0 =~ /-cvs$/ ) {
    $vc="CVS";
  } elsif ( $0 =~ /-rcs$/ ) {
    $vc="RCS";
  } elsif ( $0 =~ /-svn$/ ) {
    $vc="SVN";
  } elsif ( $0 =~ /-git$/ ) {
    $vc="GIT";
  } elsif ( $0 =~ /-hg$/ ) {
    $vc="HG";
  } elsif ( -e "$file2,v" || -d "RCS" ) {
    print STDERR "Guess you are using RCS ...\n";
    $vc="RCS";
  } elsif ( -d ".svn" ) {
    print STDERR "Guess you are using SVN ...\n";
    $vc="SVN";
  } elsif ( -d ".git" ) {
    print STDERR "Guess you are using GIT ...\n";
    $vc="GIT";
  } elsif ( -d ".hg" ) {
    print STDERR "Guess you are using HG ...\n";
    $vc="HG";
  } elsif ( -e "CVSROOT" || defined($ENV{"CVSROOT"}) ) {
    print STDERR "Guess you are using CVS ...\n";
    $vc="CVS";
  } else {
    print STDERR "Cannot figure out version control system, so I default to CVS\n";
    $vc="CVS";
  }
}

if (defined($dir) && $dir=~/^\.\/?/ ) {
  print STDERR "You wrote -dir=.  but you do not really like to do that, do you ?\n";
  exit 10
}

if ( scalar(@revs)>0 ) {
  if ( $vc eq "CVS" ) { 
    $diffcmd  = "cvs diff -u -r"; 
    $patchcmd = "patch -R -p0";
  } elsif ( $vc eq "RCS" ) {
    $diffcmd  = "rcsdiff -u -r";  
    $patchcmd = "patch -R -p0";
  } elsif ( $vc eq "SVN" ) {
    $diffcmd  = "svn diff --internal-diff -r ";  
    $patchcmd = "patch -R -p0";
  } elsif ( $vc eq "GIT" ) {
    $diffcmd  = "git diff -r --relative --no-prefix ";  
    $patchcmd = "patch -R -p0";
    # alternatively:
    # $diffcmd  = "git diff ";
    # $patchcmd = "patch -R -p1";
  } elsif ( $vc eq "HG" ) {
    $diffcmd  = "hg diff --root . -r";
    $patchcmd = "patch -R -p1";
  } else {
    print STDERR "Unknown versioning system $vc \n";
    exit 10;
  }
}


# make file list (last arguments), initial arguments have to be passed to latexdiff
# We assume an argument is a valid file rather than a latexdiff argument
# if it has extension .tex, .bbl or .flt (output of flatex), and does not start with a - or --

@files=($file2);
while( $file1=pop @ARGV ) {
  if ( $file1 =~ /\.(tex|bbl|flt)$/ && $file1 !~ /^-/) {
    # $file1 looks like a valid file name and is prepended to file list
    unshift @files, $file1 ;
  } else {
    # $file1 looks like an option for latexdiff, push it back to argument stack
    unshift @ldoptions, $file1 ;
  }
}

if ( length $configlatexdiff >0 ) {
  push @ldoptions, "--config=$configlatexdiff";
}

if ( defined($flatten) ) {
  push @ldoptions, "--flatten" ;
}

if ( defined($debug) && $debug ) {
  push @ldoptions, "--debug" ;
}

# impose ZLABEL subtype if --only-changes option
if ( $onlychanges ) {
  push @ldoptions, "-s", "ZLABEL","-f","IDENTICAL","--no-links", "--graphics-markup=none" ;
}

if ( scalar(@revs) == 0 ) {
  pod2usage("When -r option is not used, two .tex files (old and new) must be given on the command line") unless @files==2;
  warn "Option -flatten should normally be combined with -r option (Results will probably not be as expected)" if defined($flatten);
    #  compare two files
  $file1=shift @files ;
} else {
  # revision control
  if ( defined($flatten) ) {
    pod2usage("Only one root file must be given  if --flatten option is used with version control") if  @files != 1;
    $tempdir='.' if ( $flatten eq "keep-intermediate" );
    print STDERR "flatten tempdir |$tempdir|\n" if $debug;
    if ( $vc eq "SVN" ) {
      my (@infoout)=`svn info`;
      my (@urlline) = grep(/^URL:/, @infoout);
      @urlline ==1 or die "Ambiguous output from svn info command."; 
      ( $rootdir = $urlline[0] ) =~ s/URL:\s*// ;
      chomp $rootdir;
    } elsif ( $vc eq "GIT" || $vc eq "HG" ) {
      # do nothing
    } else {
      die "--flatten option with revision control only possible with SVN, HG and GIT modes";
    }
  }
}

if ( scalar(@revs) == 2 ) {
  $append = "-diff$revs[0]-$revs[1]";
} elsif ( scalar(@revs) == 1 || $revs[0] ) {
  $append = "-diff$revs[0]";
} else {
  $append = "-diff";
}

if ( defined($pdf) or defined($postscript) ) {
  # when using options such as -r HEAD~1  the ~1 is ignored by pdflatex in generating output file names; this could
  # be confusing and actually causes error to only-changes mode
  $append =~ s/~/_/g ;
}

if ( defined ($dir) && ! $dir ) {
  # bare -d option => choose directory name
  ($dir=$append) =~ s/^-//;
}

if ( ($vc eq "SVN" || $vc eq "CVS") && scalar(@revs)) {
  length($revs[$#revs]) > 0 or $revs[$#revs]="HEAD";
  length($revs[0]) > 0 or $revs[0]="HEAD";
}

if ($vc eq "HG" && scalar(@revs)) {
  length($revs[$#revs]) > 0 or $revs[$#revs]="tip";
  length($revs[0]) > 0 or $revs[0]="tip";
}

### print STDERR "DEBUG revs($#revs): " . join(":",@revs) . "\n";
### print STDERR "DEBUG Files($#files): $file1 " . join(":",@files) . "\n";
print STDERR "DEBUG LDOptions($#ldoptions): " . join(":",@ldoptions) . "\n" if $debug;
### print STDERR "DEBUG vc: $vc \n";
### print STDERR "DEBUG append $append  \n";
### print STDERR "DEBUG dir $dir  \n" if ( defined ($dir));
###exit ; 


# cycle through all files
@difffiles=();

while ( $infile=$file2=shift @files ) {
  print STDERR "Working on  $infile \n";
  if ( scalar(@revs) == 1 ) {
    if ( defined($flatten) ) {
       my $olddir=$tempdir . "/latexdiff-vc-$revs[0]";
       print STDERR "Checking out old dir into: $olddir (rev: $revs[0])\n";
       checkout_dir($revs[0],$olddir);
###       print STDERR "DEBUG olddir $olddir";
###       unless (-e $olddir) { mkdir $olddir or die "Cannot mkdir $olddir ." ;}
###       print STDERR "DEBUG svn checkout -r $revs[0] $rootdir $olddir";
###       system("svn checkout -r $revs[0] $rootdir $olddir")==0 or die "Something went wrong in executing:  svn checkout -r $revs[0] $rootdir";
       $file1=$olddir ."/".$infile;
     } else {
       ($file1=$infile) =~ s/\.(tex|bbl|flt)/-oldtmp-$$.$1/ ;
       push @tmpfiles,$file1;
       # compare file with previous version ($revs[0]="") or specified version
       ### system("$diffcmd$revs[0] $infile| $patchcmd -o$file1") ;
       if (system("$diffcmd$revs[0] \"$infile\" | $patchcmd -o\"$file1\"")==0  and -z $file1 ) {
	 # no differences detected, i.e. file is equal to current version
	 copy($infile,$file1) || die "copy($infile,$file1) failed: $!";
       }
     }
  } elsif ( scalar(@revs) == 2 ) {
    if ( defined($flatten) ) {
      my $olddir=$tempdir . "/latexdiff-vc-$revs[0]";
      print STDERR "Checking out old dir into: $olddir (rev: $revs[0])\n";
      checkout_dir($revs[0],$olddir);
      $file1=$olddir ."/".$infile;

      my $newdir=$tempdir . "/latexdiff-vc-$revs[1]";
      print STDERR "Checking out new dir into: $newdir\n";
      checkout_dir($revs[1],$newdir);
      $file2=$newdir ."/".$infile;
    } else {
      ($file1=$infile) =~ s/\.(tex|bbl|flt)/-oldtmp-$$.$1/ ;
      $file2 =~ s/\.(tex|bbl|flt)/-newtmp-$$.$1/ ;
      push @tmpfiles,$file2;
      if (system("$diffcmd$revs[1] $infile | $patchcmd -o$file2")==0 and -z $file2 ) {
	copy($infile,$file2) || die "copy($infile,$file2) failed: $!";
      }
      if (system("$diffcmd$revs[0] $infile | $patchcmd -o$file1")==0 and -z $file1 ) {
	copy($infile,$file1) || die "copy($infile,$file1) failed: $!";
      };
    }
  }

###  print STDERR "DEBUG: file1 |$file1| file2 |$file2|\n";
  if ( -z $file1 || -z $file2) {
    print STDERR "One or both of the files to compare are empty. Possibly something went wrong in the retrieval of older versions. Aborting ...\n" ;
    exit(10);
  }

  # Get name of difference file
  if ( defined($dir) ) {
    $diff="$dir/$infile" ; 
  } else {
    ($diff=$infile) =~ s/\.(tex|bbl|flt)$/$append.$1/ ;
  }
   
###  print STDERR "DEBUG: diff $diff";
  # make directories if needed
  $dirname=dirname($diff) ;
  system("mkdir -p $dirname") unless ( -e $dirname );

  # Remaining options are passed to latexdiff
  if (scalar(@ldoptions) > 0 ) {
    $options = "\'" . join("\' \'",@ldoptions) . "\'";
  } else {
    $options = "";
  }
   
  if ( -e $diff && ! $force ) {
    print STDERR "OK to overwrite existing file $diff (y/n)? ";
    $answer = <STDIN> ;
    unless ($answer =~ /^y/i ) {
      unlink @tmpfiles;
      die "Abort ... " ;
    }
  }
  print STDERR "Running: $CFG{LATEXDIFF}  $options \"$file1\" \"$file2\" > \"$diff\"\n";
  unless ( system("$CFG{LATEXDIFF} $options \"$file1\" \"$file2\" > \"$diff\"") == 0 ) { 
    print STDERR  "Something went wrong in $CFG{LATEXDIFF}. Deleting $diff and abort\n" ; unlink $diff ; exit(5) 
  };
  print "Generated difference file $diff\n";
   
  if ( $run and !( scalar(@revs) && greptex( qr/\\document(?:class|style)/ , $diff ) ) ) {
    # save filename for later processing if postscript or pdf conversion is requested and either two-file mode was used (scalar(@revs)==0) or the diff file contains documentclass statement (ie. is a root document)
    push @difffiles, $diff ;
  }
  
  unlink @tmpfiles;
}

foreach $diff ( @difffiles ) {
  chomp($cwd=(`pwd`));
  if  (defined($dir)) {
    ( $diff =~ s/$dir\/?// ) ;
    chdir $dir ; 
  }
  @ptmpfiles=();
  ( $diffbase=$diff) =~ s/\.(tex)$// ;

  # adapt magically changebar styles to [pdftex] display driver if pdf output was selected
  if ( $pdf ) {
    system("sed \"s/Package\\[dvips\\]/Package[pdftex]/\" \"$diff\" > \"$diff.tmp$$\" ; \\mv \"$diff.tmp$$\" \"$diff\"");
  }

  if ( $run ) {
    print STDERR "PDF: $pdf Postscript: $postscript cwd $cwd\n" if $debug;

    if ( system("grep -q \'^[^%]*\\\\bibliography{\' \"$diff\"") == 0 ) { 
      system("$CFG{LATEX} --interaction=batchmode \"$diff\"; $CFG{BIBTEX} \"$diffbase\";");
      push @ptmpfiles, "$diffbase.bbl","$diffbase.bbl" ; 
    }

    # if special needs, as CHANGEBAR
    if ( $extracomp ) {
      # print "Extracomp\n";
      system("$CFG{LATEX} --interaction=batchmode \"$diff\";");
    }

    # final compilation
    system("$CFG{LATEX} --interaction=batchmode \"$diff\";"); # needed if cross-refs
    system("$CFG{LATEX} \"$diff\";"); # final, with possible error messages

    if ( $rundvi2 ) {
      my $dvi="$diffbase.dvi";
      #my $ps="$diffbase.ps";
      my $ppoption="";
      
      if ( $onlychanges ) {
	$ppoption="-pp ".join(",",findchangedpages("$diffbase.aux"));
      }
      #system("$CFG{DVI2} $ppoption -o $ps $dvi");
      system("$CFG{DVI2} $ppoption $dvi");
      push @ptmpfiles, "$diffbase.aux","$diffbase.log",$dvi ;
      #print STDERR "Generated postscript file $ps\n";
    } elsif ( $run ) {
      if ( $onlychanges ) {
	my @pages=compresspages(findchangedpages("$diffbase.aux"));
        my $gs = `which gs`;
        $gs =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
        my $qpdf = `which qpdf`;
        $qpdf =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
        my $pdftk = `which pdftk`;
        $pdftk =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
        my $command;
        if (-x $gs && `$gs --version` >= 9.20) {
          $command="gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sPageList=" . join(",", @pages) . " -sOutputFile=\"$diffbase-changedpage.pdf\" \"$diffbase.pdf\"";
        } elsif (-x $pdftk) {
          $command="pdftk \"$diffbase.pdf\" cat " . join(" ",@pages) . " output \"$diffbase-changedpage.pdf\"";
        } elsif (-x $qpdf) {
          $command="qpdf --linearize \"$diffbase.pdf\" --pages \"$diffbase.pdf\" " . join(",", @pages) . " -- \"$diffbase-changedpage.pdf\" ";
        } else {
          die ("could not find any of gs, pdftk or qpdf");
        }
        print "Executing ".$command;
        system($command) == 0
          or die("could not execute <".$command."> to strip pages. Return code: $?");
	move("$diffbase-changedpage.pdf","$diffbase.pdf");
      }
      push @ptmpfiles, "$diffbase.aux","$diffbase.log";
    }
  }
  unlink @ptmpfiles;
  chdir $cwd;
}

# findchangedpages($auxfile)
# returns a list of the page numbers on which changes were marked with the ZLABEL subtype of latexdiff
sub findchangedpages {
  my ($auxfile) =@_;
  my $j;
  my (%pages);		# note that I use a hash with page numbers as keys and arbitrary values - this way I can use Perl's built-in functions to get rid of duplicates
  my %start;
  open(AUX,$auxfile) or die ("Could open aux file $auxfile . System error: $!");
  while (<AUX>) {
    if (m/\\zref\@newlabel\{DIFchgb(\d*)\}\{.*\\abspage\{(\d*)\}\}/ ) { 
      $start{$1}=$2; $pages{$2}=1;
    }
    if (m/\\zref\@newlabel\{DIFchge(\d*)\}\{.*\\abspage\{(\d*)\}\}/) { 
      if (defined($start{$1})) {
	for ($j=$start{$1}; $j<=$2; $j++) {
	  $pages{$j}=1;
	}
      } else {
	$pages{$2}=1;
      }
    }
  }
  close(AUX);
  # sort pages numerically (they should be sorted already; this is just to make sure
  return(sort {$a <=> $b} keys(%pages));
}

# inspired by a python version posted at https://stackoverflow.com/a/54714846/8136338
# compresspages(@pages)
# @pages: sorted array of unique integers (pages)
# return a list of pages and page ranges. 3 or more consecutive numbers are merged into a "begin-end" string
#
# example: join(",", compresspages([1,3,4,5,7,8])) -> join(",", [1,"3-5",7,8]) -> "1,3-5,7,8"
sub compresspages {
  my (@pages) = @_;
  my @res;
  my $begin=$pages[0];
  my $end =$pages[0];
  my $page;
  foreach $page ( @pages ) {
    next if ($page == $begin);
    if ($page == $end+1) { # handle continuous pages
      $end = $page;
      next;
    } elsif ($begin == $end) { # push single continuous page
      push @res, $begin;
      $begin = $end = $page;
    } elsif ($begin + 1 == $end) { # push two continuous pages
      push @res, $begin, $end;
      $begin = $end = $page;
    } else { # push multiple continuous pages
      push @res, "$begin-$end";
      $begin = $end = $page;
    }
  }
  # Finally just check in the same manner for the end element
  if ($begin == $end) {
    push @res, $begin;
  } elsif ($begin + 1 == $end) {
    push @res, $begin, $end;
  } else {
    push @res, "$begin-$end";
  }
  return @res;
}

# checkout_dir(rev,dirname)
# checks out revision rev and stores it in dirname
# uses global variables: $vc, $rootdir
sub checkout_dir {
  my ($rev,$dirname)=@_;

  unless (-e $dirname) { mkpath([ $dirname ]) or die "Cannot mkdir $dirname ." ;}
  if ( $vc eq "SVN" ) {
    system("svn checkout -r $rev $rootdir $dirname")==0 or die "Something went wrong in executing:  svn checkout -r $rev $rootdir $dirname";
  } elsif ( $vc eq "GIT" ) {
    $rev="HEAD" if length($rev)==0;
    system("git archive --format=tar $rev | ( cd $dirname ; tar -xf -)")==0 or die "Something went wrong in executing:  git archive --format=tar $rev | ( cd $dirname ; tar -xf -)";
  } elsif ( $vc eq "HG" ) {
    system("hg archive --type files -r $rev $dirname")==0 or die "Something went wrong in executing:  hg archive --type files -r $rev $dirname";
  } else {
    die "checkout_dir: only works with SVN, HG and GIT VCS system (selected: $vc)";
  }
}

# greptex returns 1 if regex is not matched in filename
# only the 25 first non-comment lines are scanned
# 0 if there is a match
sub greptex {
  my ($regex,$filename)=@_;
  my ($i)=0;
  open (FH, $filename) or die("Couldn't open $filename: $!");
  while (<FH>) {
    next if /^\s*%/;    # skip comment lines
    if ( m/$regex/ ) {
      close(FH);
      return(0);
    }
    # only scan 25 lines
    $i++;    
    last if $i>25 ;
  }
  close(FH);
  return(1);
}


=head1 NAME

latexdiff-vc - wrapper script that calls latexdiff for different versions of a file under version management (CVS, RCS or SVN)

=head1 SYNOPSIS

B<latexdiff-vc> [ F<latexdiff-options> ] [ F<latexdiff-vc-options> ]  B<-r> [F<rev1>] [B<-r> F<rev2>]  F<file1.tex> [ F<file2.tex> ...]

 or

B<latexdiff-vc> [ F<latexdiff-options> ]  [ F<latexdiff-vc-options> ][ B<--postscript> | B<--pdf> ]  F<old.tex> F<new.tex>

=head1 DESCRIPTION

I<latexdiff-vc> is a wrapper script that applies I<latexdiff> to a
file, or multiple files under version control (git, subversion (SVN), mercurial (hg), CVS, RCS), and optionally runs the
sequence of C<latex> and C<dvips> or C<pdflatex> commands necessary to
produce pdf or postscript output of the difference tex file(s). It can
also be applied to a pair of files to automatise the generation of difference
file in postscript or pdf format.

=head1 OPTIONS

=over 4

=item B<--rcs>, B<--svn>, B<--cvs>, B<--git> or B<--hg>

Set the version control system used. 
If no version system is specified, latexdiff-vc will venture a guess.

latexdiff-cvs, latexdiff-rcs etc are variants of latexdiff-vc which default to 
the respective versioning system. However, this default can still be overridden using the options above.

Note that hg needs to support the C<--root> option (version >= 2.9)

=item B<-r>, B<-r> F<rev> or B<--revision>, B<--revision=>F<rev>

Choose revision (under RCS, CVS, SVN, GIT or HG). One or two B<-r> options can be
specified, and they result in different behaviour:

=over 4

=item B<latexdiff-vc> -r F<file.tex> ...

compares F<file.tex> with the most recently checked-in version checked.

=item B<latexdiff-vc> -r F<rev1> F<file.tex> ...

compares F<file.tex> with revision F<rev1>.

=item B<latexdiff-vc> -r F<rev1> -r F<rev2> F<file.tex> ...

compares revisions F<rev1> and F<rev2> of F<file.tex>.

Multiple files can be specified for all of the above options. All files must have the
extensions C<.tex>, C<.bbl>, or C<.flt>, though.

=item B<latexdiff-vc>  F<old.tex> F<new.tex>

compares two files.

=back

The name of the difference file is generated automatically and
reported to stdout.

=item B<-d> or B<--dir>  B<-d> F<path> or B<--dir=>F<path>

Rather than appending the string C<diff> and optionally the version
numbers given to the output-file, this will prepend a directory name C<diff> 
to the
original filename, creating the directory and sub-directories should they not exist already.  This is particularly useful in order to clone a
complete directory hierarchy.  Optionally, a pathname F<path> can be specified, which is prepended instead of C<diff>.

=item B<--flatten,--flatten=keep-intermediate>

If combined with C<--git>, C<--svn> or C<--hg> option or the corresponding modes, check out the revisions to compare in a separate temporary directory, and then pass on option C<--flatten> to latexdiff. The directory in which C<latexdiff-vc> is invoked defines the subtree which will be checked out.
Note that if additional files are needed which are not included in the flatten procedure (package files, included graphics), they need to be accessible in the current directory. If you use bibtex, it is recommended to include the C<.bbl> file in the version management.

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

With C<--flatten=keep-intermediate>, the intermediate revision snapshots are kept in the current directory (Default is to store them in a temporary directory and delete them after generating the diff file.)


=item B<--only-changes>

Post-process the output such that only pages with changes on them are displayed. This requires the use of subtype ZLABEL 
in latexdiff, which will be set automatically, but any manually set -s option will be overruled (also requires zref package to 
be installed). This option also disables internal links (as implemented by hyperref package) and graphics markup.
(note that this option must be combined with --ps or --pdf to make sense)

=item B<--force>

Overwrite existing diff files without asking for confirmation. Default 
behaviour is to ask for confirmation before overwriting an existing difference
file.

=item B<--run>

run latex command on diff file after generation of diff file.

=item B<--dvi>

run latex and dvixxx commands after generation of diff file.

=item B<-c configfile>
=item B<--config var1=val1,var2=val2,...> or B<-c var1=val1,..>

Set configuration variables for latexdiff and latexdiff-vc.  The option can be repeated to set different
variables (as an alternative to the comma-separated list).
Available variables for latexdiff-vc:

=over 8

=item C<LATEXDIFF> latexdiff command (e.g. latexdiff-fast, latexdiff-so). This command should support the option C<--interaction=batchmode>

=item C<LATEX> latex command (e.g. pdflatex, lualatex)

=item C<DVI2>  Command for conversion of dvi file (e.g. dvips, dvipdf)

=item C<BIBTEX> Command replacing bibtex

=back

All other config variables are passed to latexdiff. Explicitly set configuration changes always override implicit
changes by the following shortcut options B<--fast>, B<--so>, B<--ps> and B<--pdf>. 

=item B<--fast> or B<--so>

Use C<latexdiff-fast> or C<latexdiff-so>, respectively (instead of C<latexdiff>).

=item B<--ps> or B<--postscript>

Generate postscript output from difference file.  This will run the
sequence C<latex; latex; dvips> on the difference file (do not use
this option in the rare cases, where three C<latex> commands are
required if you care about correct referencing).  If the difference
file contains a C<\bibliography> tag, run the sequence C<latex;
bibtex; latex; latex; dvips>.

=item B<--pdf>

Generate pdf output from difference file using C<pdflatex>. This will
run the sequence C<pdflatex; pdflatex> on the difference file, or
C<pdflatex; bibtex; pdflatex; pdflatex> for files requiring bibtex.
Note that this is not just a shortcut for setting configuration variable but also triggers 
some special behaviour.


=item B<--show-config>

Show values of configuration variables.

=item B<--help> or B<-h>

Show help text

=item B<--version>

Show version number

=back

All other options are passed on to C<latexdiff>.  Note that it is not always easy for latexdiff to correctly assign arguments to options when short form (single letter) options are used so it is recommended to use long-form options. 

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<latexdiff>

=head1 PORTABILITY

I<latexdiff-vc> uses external commands and is therefore dependent on the system architecture; it has been
tested mainly on Unix-like systems. It also requires a version control
system and latex to be installed on the system to make use of all features.  Modules from Perl 5.8
or higher are required.

=head1 BUG REPORTING

Please submit bug reports using the issue tracker of the github repository page I<https://github.com/ftilmann/latexdiff.git>, 
or send them to I<tilmann -- AT -- gfz-potsdam.de>.  Include the version number of I<latexdiff-vc>
(option C<--version>).

=head1 AUTHOR

Version 1.3.2
Copyright (C) 2005-2017 Frederik Tilmann

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 3
Contributors: S Utcke, H Bruyninckx; some ideas have been inspired by git-latexdiff bash script.
C. Junghans: Mercurial Support.

=cut