#9

Obsidian Git menu does not show up on macOS Big Sur recently. I have had no problem until now. Suddenly, the menu option disappeared and I can’t use git backup. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin. Still can’t see the Obsidian Git option on the sidebar of settings.

#10

Same problem here with Windows 10 - can’t see the Obsidian Git option on the sidebar of settings. Git for Windows already installed.

Is there any way to troubleshoot? No clue at all what went wrong.

#11

Hey, I really value your work in the plugin, I would like help to fix it, but yet now I don’t have time to study how to contribute to plugin space, but I have feedback, whenever you use your touch bar for authentication, obsidian somehow doesn’t pick it up. Would be nice to configure which key ssh-agent would use for obsidian.

The error I’ve got even I auth it in timeout
Screenshot 2021-01-25 at 14.05.13

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#12

For people still having issues, try opening Obsidian.MD as administrator (at least once) after installing Obsidian Git. I cannot confirm this resolves the issue for everyone, but I was able to get to the plugin settings after I did this. (Also make sure Git Bash for Windows is installed)

#13

Same problem here. Did you eventually manage to solve it?

#14

Anyone else had an issue with this hanging on “git: committing changes…” I can manually commit and push but the plugin seems to get stuck.

#15

Hi all,

I’m using macOS and also note that, when installing this plug-in and enabling it, the menu option doesn’t appear. My vault is stored in a Cryptomator container, and no matter what I’ve done the option doesn’t appear. However, if I open my vault in a non-encrypted container and enable the plug-in the menu option magically appears and is able to be utilised.

While not ideal, this could be a workaround for some of you while we wait for a bug fix, and I hope that this can aid in debugging.

Cheers.

EDIT: After having a bit of a fiddle with some other community plug-ins it seems this issue isn’t specific to the Git plugin. @kepano minimal theme settings also has this problem, but is resolved when not in a vault within an encrypted container. This is on macOS, not sure if it applies to other OS at this stage. Food for thought!

#16

I’ve finally managed to solve it, at least for macOS users. It seems to have to do with the command line tool:
open terminal and update it with
xcode-select --install

#17

Anyone know where a set of log files might be to help diagnose the issue? Would gladly submit a PR to fix the problem but I’m not sure how to locate it.

#18

Found it! Dev tools. Should have guessed. Found out this is a GPG Key Signing issue. I forgot that I do the automatic signing of commits and pushes. Now to figure out how to make it work with this plugin.

EDIT: And to complete the circle. I found this:

Made the tweak and all is well!

#19

I really know nothing about code or this software, but I opened up a GitHub desktop app. It registers changes that I make in Obsidian. The problem is, I have to add a summary and press the button commit to Main. So it will not back up ever xx minutes and described in the app description. Wondering what I should do. Maybe get Keyboard Maestro to start the back up every five minutes. Not sure how to do that.

#20

For Windows users this is how I got the settings page to come up.:

  1. Make sure you have downloaded git for windows
  2. Get a/sign into your github account. Create a new (private) repository.
  3. You will see a page that tells you a number of ways to set up a git folder in your computer’s file system. Copy and paste the first one into your windows terminal. This will create a .git folder in your computer. Before that, you might want to use the command cd to change the current directory of the git folder to be the same as your vault folder but I’m not sure if that’s necessary (that’s what I did anyway). (E.g cd C:\Users\winky\Documents)
  4. Restart obsidian
    The settings for the plugin should come up.
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#22

Do you achieve to sync plugin / config ?

#23

I also don’t see the config option.
I’m on macOS Big Sur, just installed the command line tools, and rebooted. Uninstalled and reinstalled several times.

Any suggestions appreciated!

#24

I didn’t get the config option until I had .git folder in my vault folder. Meaning desktop git setup and point to the vault folder.

#25

I was in my identical notes folder that wasn’t a git repository. (I had both open at one time, and must have closed the wrong one.) When I opened the correct vault, voilà, there it was.

#26

I’ve the same issue in one of my Linux machines, using both appimage and snap.

#27

anyway to encrypt files before uploading and decrypt them while fetching ?

#28

Anyway to add encryption before uploading to GitHub?
That would be great