git + LaTeX workflow

Question

I\'m writing a very long document in LaTeX. I have my work computer and my laptop, and I work on them both. I need to keep all the files synchronized between the two compute

Answer 1

I tried to implement this as a bash function, I've included it in my ~/.bashrc to make it always available.

function git-latexdiff {    
    if [[ $# != 2 ]];    
    then      
        printf "\tusage: git-latexdiff    \n";    
    elif [[ $2 -lt 0 ]];     
    then     
        printf "\t must be positive\n";   
    else      
        dire=$(dirname $PWD/$1);      
        based=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel);      
        git show HEAD~$2:$(echo $dire| sed 's!'$(echo $based)'/!!')/$1 > $1_diff.tmp;      
        latexdiff $1 $1_diff.tmp > $1_diff.tex;      
        pdflatex $1_diff.tex;     
        okular $1_diff.pdf;      
        rm $1_diff*;   
    fi; 
}

Note that this function needs latexdiff to be installed (and be found on the path). It is also important for it to to find pdflatex and okular.

The first is my prefered way to process LaTeX, so you can chage it to latex as well. The second is my PDF reader, I supose you'll want to use evince under gnome, or some other solution.

This is a quick version, made with a single document in mind, and that is because with git, you will lose a lot of time and effort tracking a multi file LaTeX document. You may let git do this task as well, but if you want, you can also continue using \include