You also want to write English, as you normally write English. It'd be nice to have an intermediate step that turned your LaTeX into a canonical form that work

You also want to write English, as you normally write English. It'd be nice to have an intermediate step that turned your LaTeX into a canonical form that works well with Git. And then when you are about to edit, converts it back into a nice-looking 80-column text file, or whatever you prefer.