[akshayn]

> We also recommend to save the command used to generate a figure in the LaTeX file

An approach I have adopted recently is Knitr[1], so this layer of indirection goes away. With knitr, my data goes directly into the paper repository, and then my Makefile has something like this:

  %.tex: graphs/%.Rnw
    Rscript -e "library(knitr); knit('$?')"

The nice thing is exactly what the authors recommend: it's much easier to enforce a standard appearance across all the figures, and automatically incorporate more recent data into the paper as part of the compilation process.

[1] https://yihui.name/knitr/

[Wookai]

Looks awesome, thanks for sharing!