storing to git data files [was Re: Subsurface ans Dropbox]

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 09:05:23PM +0200, Joakim Bygdell wrote:
> 
> > On 27 May 2015, at 19:01, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 09:48:21AM -0700, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> >> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 06:22:32PM +0200, Davide DB wrote:
> >>> A little OT
> >>> 
> >>> What is the git integration that sometimes people here talk about?
> >>> How it (should) works exactly?
> >> 
> >> You can store your dive data locally into a git repository.
> >> Assume you have an existing directory c:\mydives
> >> If you then tell Subsurface to store your dive data as
> >> c:\mydives[davide]
> >> it will create a git repository in that folder that holds your dives.
> > 
> > Um, err, it doesn't. I need to figure out when / how that got broken.
> > Since my default data file is a git repo I apparently never tested this.
> > 
> Trying to save a git repo named “test” I get the following errors.
> 
> In an empty folder, “ Unable to open git repository ”.
> 
> If I manually initialise a git repo in the actual folder I get “ Invalid branch name ‘[tes’ ".

OK, these steps should work

mkdir -p ~/tmp/gitdives
cd ~/tmp/gitdives
git init

now start Subsurfaec

Save As "~/tmp/gitdives[jocke]"

(this assumes latest master / daily from an hour ago)

If this fails, let me know more

/D