[Tex/LaTex] Can you put git revision information in a multifile document

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I have my PhD thesis under revision control (git), with a master file (~/Thesis/thesis.tex) using the \include command to include the chapters (~/Thesis/tex/chapter1.tex, etc).

Is there a way to include the revision information of each separate chapter in the header of each page for each respective chapter?

I thought I was getting somewhere with a combination of the gitinfo and fancyhdr packages, but I'm not sure if you can have different revision headers under gitinfo.

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Not directly, no; git doesn't distinguish between files (or something like that) and it doesn't store metadata on the last revision that affected each file.

I think the best option would be to write a post-commit hook that looked at the changed files and wrote a timestamp corresponding to each. E.g., iterate through the output of

git show --pretty="format:" --name-only master

and write a <filename>.datestamp file when each file is seen. This file could then be read directly into a header/footer to show when the chapter was lasted edited.

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If you don't want numbered chapters it's not as complex as you seem to think:

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{-1}

in the preamble is all that's needed and a chapter can start as, for instance,

\chapter{Notas sobre la edición y la traducción}

As already pointed out in the comments, there's no way that \include resets the page number by itself, unless you have loaded some package that implements page numbering by chapters or have given a command such as

\numberwithin{page}{chapter}

In this case it's not \include that resets the page number, but \chapter, because LaTeX has been requested to do so.

Check if in your preamble page is mentioned and take the appropriate action, that is deleting the instruction.

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The following answer is basically a copy of Will Robertson's answer on stackoverflow. It seems that it doesn't actually have an answer on TeX.SX, so I thought that I would post it here, too.

\include issues a \clearpage before and after the content that is included. There are two ways around this.

The first way is to use \input instead of \include (cf., When should I use \input vs. \include?).

However, since the OP is after a method that functions as \include does, the second option, then, is to utilize the package newclude which provides the command \include*. This command does not issue the \clearpage at the beginning and at the end of the \included content.

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