Handy hashing for PDFs made by MATLAB code

publish_version_control.md

Automatic Version control for publish()

MATLAB's publish takes a script and makes a PDF from it. Here, we want to add some basic info about the file that created the PDF to the PDF, programatically.

Add the name of the file that created the PDF to the PDF

add this snippet of code to the bottom of the script that you will publish with MATLAB's publish() function (or my MakePDF.m wrapper)

%% Version Info
% The file that generated this document is called:
disp(mfilename)

Add the hash of the file that created the PDF to the PDF

%%
% and its md5 hash is:
Opt.Input = 'file';
disp(DataHash(strcat(mfilename,'.m'),Opt))