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

[Joakim Bygdell]

> On 28 May 2015, at 18:20, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 06:15:30PM +0200, Joakim Bygdell wrote:
>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I can see that the code is wrong in that case - I'll push a fix in a
>>>> minute.
>>> That solved that issue, now I get a bunch of “file 01-Divesites/Site-HASH does not match in working tree”
>> As a result of the branch already existing.
>> Saving it with a non existing branch name works fine.
> 
> So you cannot use an existing git repository that holds your XML file or
> anything else. It needs to be a repository/branch exclusively used by
> Subsurface. Or did I misunderstand your comment?

I thought it was because there already existed a branch with the same name as the one I tried to use.
But it was something else as I failed to reproduce it using the same steps.

> 
>> Still can’t create a new git repository from scratch, must manually run "git init” in the target directory.
> 
> Yes, I noticed the same. I thought we did the init at some point.
> Linus, did that change?
> 
>> Or open the the newly created repository.
> 
> Not sure what you mean here.

On Mac you can’t open a git repository, you must set it as the default divelog file in preferences.

> 
> In the meantime I pushed a commit that allows us to use libgit2 master to
> build - that seems to have added more support for ssh credentials for
> remote repositories.
> 
> /D

/Jocke