Creates a diffed latex document comparing your recent uncommitted changes to your git last commit.

gitLatexDiff.sh

#!/bin/bash
#This script creates a diffed latex document comparing your recent uncommitted changes to your git last commit.
#
#   ./gitLatexDiff.sh "folder path containing the git repository"
#

#You need to make sure that the current version at least compiles.
#
#The file and folder structure:
#
#   $1/Figures/*
#   $1/*.tex
#
#   ROOTFILE will be the "master" that gets compiled.
#   riboch

CURRDIR=$(pwd)
CLONEDDIR=ClonedDirectory

ROOTFILE=root.tex
DIFFEDFILE=diff.tex

mkdir $CLONEDDIR
cd $CLONEDDIR

git clone $1

cd "$(ls)"  

#I recommend not tracking the figures:
#   git update-index --assume-unchanged FILENAME
mkdir Figures/
cp $(echo $1)/Figures/* Figures/

for a1 in $(ls *.tex); 
do
    if [ "$a1" != "$ROOTFILE" ]
    then
        echo $a1
        #Goes back 1 revision in case you commited already, you fool.
        #git checkout HEAD~1 $a1 

        NEWDIFFFILE="DIFF$(basename $a1 .tex).tex"
        echo $NEWDIFFFILE
        mv $a1 $NEWDIFFFILE
        #Takes difference between last commit and what is in the working directory.
        #Does not check math environments, need --math-markup=3 for bug-#726313
        latexdiff --math-markup=3 $NEWDIFFFILE "$1/$a1" > $a1
    else
        latexdiff --math-markup=3 "$ROOTFILE" "$1/$ROOTFILE" > $DIFFEDFILE          
    fi
done

#Compile the diffed version.
lualatex -interaction=nonstopmode $DIFFEDFILE
bibtex $(basename $DIFFEDFILE .tex).aux
lualatex -interaction=nonstopmode $DIFFEDFILE
lualatex -interaction=nonstopmode $DIFFEDFILE

mv $(basename $DIFFEDFILE .tex).pdf $1/difference.pdf
cd $CURRDIR
rm -rf $CLONEDDIR