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Automatic Git backup not working

Open desmond-dsouza opened this issue 3 years ago • 5 comments

Description

I have set FSN preferences to Automatic Snapshots at Every 1 hour (at 22 minutes). No git backups are happening in the repo-location I set, or in the default location. Notes that I edit regularly still have their History menu option greyed out.

My which git is /usr/local/bin/git.

Is there some log I can look at to try & debug?

To Reproduce

  1. Set git repo location & preference to Auto / Every n minutes or hours.
  2. Edit some notes
  3. Check if git is working in repo folder, check History option on notes

Expected behavior

  • Edited notes should have history menu enabled.
  • Git repo folder should show git at work

FSNotes version

5.3.5 (514)

macOS/iOS version

11.6.8

Additional context

No response

desmond-dsouza avatar Aug 20 '22 19:08 desmond-dsouza

Hi there! I am facing the exact same issue. I would also be happy to help debugging it.

chb-ioki avatar Sep 08 '22 15:09 chb-ioki

Hi, guys! Sorry for delayed response. FSNotes uses embedded git binary. Honestly i don't know how to reproduce this error. Can you show git status in repo folder? Maybe git repo corrupted?

glushchenko avatar Sep 18 '22 21:09 glushchenko

No worries, thanks for replying!

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I've repeated multiple times, doubt it is corrupted. Could the spaces in folder name be an issue?

desmond-dsouza avatar Sep 19 '22 00:09 desmond-dsouza

Hello! I investigated a bit more and finally got it working!

My initial problem was:

  • I activated git backups
  • No git repo was created in the directory I had chosen
  • After manually creating a git repo, it was also not used by the app
  • No error messages whatsoever, neither in the app, not on the command line

How I fixed it: Using git on a daily basis, I intuitively assumed the app would just init a git repo in the folder with the notes files.

So I chose the same directory as default storage and for the git repo.

For some reason, I never saw this error message before:

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Now that I saw it, after disabling git backups, deleting the repo, re-creating a new folder in my home directory and re-enabling git backups finally fixed it!

fabrik42 avatar Sep 19 '22 07:09 fabrik42

@desmond-dsouza please open project in repo dir and call git status.

@fabrik42 👍

glushchenko avatar Sep 20 '22 07:09 glushchenko

I followed @fabrik42 and it seems to be working now. image

Many thanks, @glushchenko !!

desmond-dsouza avatar Sep 23 '22 19:09 desmond-dsouza