Most of the things I write, be it software or something else, are under revision control with git. Mostly because it makes undoing mistakes easy. My LaTeX documents are no exception. With software it is customary to have a change-log (like the one generated by the git log command). I wanted to do something similar for LaTeX.

The easiest way to do that would probably be to save the git log output to a file and include that with a \verbatimfile command from the verbatimfiles package. But that would look pretty ugly.

So I decided to write a program that parses the output of the git log command and format it. It is called mkhistory.py. It is part of my scripts repository on github.

This is some git log output:

And this is wat it looks like after mkhistory.py has done its job and the resulting LaTeX code has been processed into a pdf:

It requires python (version 3) and git.