diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/gi/git-latexdiff/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/gi/git-latexdiff/package.nix
index 34f5a33b5e69..69acfd533d9e 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/gi/git-latexdiff/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/gi/git-latexdiff/package.nix
@@ -2,46 +2,61 @@
   lib,
   stdenv,
   fetchFromGitLab,
-  git,
-  bash,
+  installShellFiles,
+  asciidoc,
+  makeBinaryWrapper,
+  coreutils,
+  gnused,
+  versionCheckHook,
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
-  version = "1.6.0";
+  version = "1.7.1";
   pname = "git-latexdiff";
 
   src = fetchFromGitLab {
-    hash = "sha256-DMoGEbCBuqUGjbna3yDpD4WNTikPudYRD4Wy1pPG2mw=";
-    rev = finalAttrs.version;
     repo = "git-latexdiff";
     owner = "git-latexdiff";
+    tag = finalAttrs.version;
+    hash = "sha256-ocEDds1vAnaj84YiAez150OZV82w3NlsgXoxNbUGW/Q=";
   };
 
-  buildInputs = [
-    git
-    bash
-  ];
-
-  dontBuild = true;
-
-  patches = [ ./version-test.patch ];
-
   postPatch = ''
     substituteInPlace git-latexdiff \
-      --replace "@GIT_LATEXDIFF_VERSION@" "v${finalAttrs.version}"
+      --replace-fail "@GIT_LATEXDIFF_VERSION@" "v${finalAttrs.version}"
     patchShebangs git-latexdiff
   '';
 
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    installShellFiles
+    asciidoc
+    makeBinaryWrapper
+  ];
+
+  nativeInstallCheckInputs = [
+    versionCheckHook
+  ];
+  doInstallCheck = true;
+
+  dontBuild = true;
+
   installPhase = ''
-    mkdir -p $prefix/bin
-    mv git-latexdiff $prefix/bin
-    chmod +x $prefix/bin/git-latexdiff
+    installBin git-latexdiff
+    wrapProgram ''${!outputBin}/bin/git-latexdiff \
+      --prefix PATH : ${
+        lib.makeBinPath [
+          coreutils
+          gnused
+        ]
+      }
+    make git-latexdiff.1
+    installManPage git-latexdiff.1
   '';
 
   meta = {
     description = "View diff on LaTeX source files on the generated PDF files";
     homepage = "https://gitlab.com/git-latexdiff/git-latexdiff";
-    maintainers = [ ];
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ doronbehar ];
     license = lib.licenses.bsd3; # https://gitlab.com/git-latexdiff/git-latexdiff/issues/9
     platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
     mainProgram = "git-latexdiff";
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/gi/git-latexdiff/version-test.patch b/pkgs/by-name/gi/git-latexdiff/version-test.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 243bd90f9005..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/gi/git-latexdiff/version-test.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-Fix for https://gitlab.com/git-latexdiff/git-latexdiff/issues/7
----
---- src/git-latexdiff	2016-01-26 14:04:54.338568955 +0100
-+++ src/git-latexdiff	2016-01-26 14:40:23.700381943 +0100
-@@ -44,11 +44,7 @@
- git_latexdiff_version='@GIT_LATEXDIFF_VERSION@'
-
- git_latexdiff_compute_version () {
--    if [ "$git_latexdiff_version" = '@GIT_LATEXDIFF''_VERSION@' ]; then
--	(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && git describe --tags HEAD 2>/dev/null || echo 'Unknown version')
--    else
--	echo "$git_latexdiff_version"
--    fi
-+    echo "$git_latexdiff_version"
- }
-
- usage () {
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/default.nix
index 94bd06efacaa..155c2c801983 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/default.nix
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
   buildEnv,
   callPackage,
   ghostscript_headless,
+  git-latexdiff,
   harfbuzz,
   makeWrapper,
   installShellFiles,
@@ -79,6 +80,7 @@ let
           gawk
           getopt
           ghostscript_headless
+          git-latexdiff
           gnugrep
           gnumake
           gnupg
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/tlpdb-overrides.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/tlpdb-overrides.nix
index 489fc23c05eb..df72bce8ffc1 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/tlpdb-overrides.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/tlpdb-overrides.nix
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
   gawk,
   getopt,
   ghostscript_headless,
+  git-latexdiff,
   gnugrep,
   gnumake,
   gnupg,
@@ -545,6 +546,12 @@ lib.recursiveUpdate orig rec {
     fi
   '';
 
+  # Use top-level git-latexdiff's version and src. NOTE that this derivation is
+  # still different from top-level's `git-latexdiff`, due to __structuredAttrs
+  # enabled unconditionally. Still though this derivation produces a funcitonal
+  # binary.
+  inherit git-latexdiff;
+
   # RISC-V: https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/628
   luajittex.binfiles = lib.optionals (lib.meta.availableOn stdenv.hostPlatform luajit) orig.luajittex.binfiles;