A script to make it easy the utilization of the git latexdiff, a tool to generate a PDF comparing changes in a latex project across two different commits (https://gitlab.com/git-latexdiff/git-latexdiff). Run it without parameters to see the usage.

latexdiff.sh

#!/bin/bash
clear
git latexdiff --version > /dev/null
RET=$?
if [ $RET -ne 0 ]; then 
	echo -e "\nInstall git-latexdiff using: git clone https://gitlab.com/git-latexdiff/git-latexdiff\n"; 
	exit $RET;
fi

echo -e "git-latexdiff from https://gitlab.com/git-latexdiff/git-latexdiff\n"

if [ "$#" -eq 0 ]; then
  echo -e "Usage:" >&2
  echo -e "\tCompare HEAD with previous commit: $0 old_commid_id" >&2
  echo -e "\tCompare two specific commits:      $0 old_commid_id new_commit_id\n" >&2
  exit -1
elif [ "$#" -eq 1 ]; then 
	OLD_COMMIT_ID=$1
	NEW_COMMIT_ID="HEAD"
else 
	OLD_COMMIT_ID=$1
	NEW_COMMIT_ID=$2
fi

#get id of the last commit
#PREVIOUS_COMMIT_ID=`git log --skip 1 -n 1 --oneline --no-abbrev-commit | awk '{print $1}'`
echo -e "Comparing commit $NEW_COMMIT_ID with the $OLD_COMMIT_ID\n"
echo "Starting git-latexdiff"
echo "Please be patient..."
git latexdiff $OLD_COMMIT_ID $NEW_COMMIT_ID --no-cleanup --main cloudsim-plus-ccgrid.tex