Feat: Obsidian Sync Ignores git repos within vault

[Hazariel]

Heya Obsidian Team, love the app etc.

I’ve got a couple of git repositories stored with my Obsidian Vault for programming projects I’m working on. This is great to manage markdown files and link in/out of these projects, but an issue when Obsidian sync and git get into fights.

Proposed solution

Detect a .git within a folder, and don’t sync that folder or any sub-folders. Probably opt-in.

Current workaround (optional)

Manually excluding folders. This is possible, but I haven’t found a good way to automate… Potentially some fancy trick with gnustow or similar.

[ariehen]

Hi!

Something may be strange with your setup.

Obsidian Sync ignores all hidden files and folders except for the settings .obsidian one. I’ve had a .git directory in my vault the entire time using Obsidian Sync (~4.5 years now) without issue.

---

Add support for hidden folders in Obsidian Sync

Use case or problem I want to maintain a local version history of my vault using Git (without using a remote repository). I would like to sync the .git folder using Obsidian Sync, but it doesn’t work because Obsidian ignores hidden folders. Proposed solution Allow syncing hidden folders. There could be an option in Sync settings to manually list which hidden folders to include. Current workaround I could use a separate solution to sync the .git folder, but I’d be concerned of creating conflict…