Setting Up Obsidian Git on iOS without iSH* or Working Copy

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@matti

The Git implementation on mobile is very unstable ! I would not recommend using this plugin on mobile, but try other syncing services.

@dbhat6

I am using Obs just to sync simple files and which are not more than 100-200kb in size and not more than 10 files in total.

Using this method for a huge vault:

[Mobile] Automatic sync with GitHub on iOS (for free) via a-shell

I recently started using Obsidian and didn’t want to pay for Sync or Working Copy, so I thought I’d try to figure out a way to sync my vault everywhere for free. I saw in the comments of this post by rsteele and this post from ForceBru that people were able to get GitHub to sync with their iOS device using the a-shell app, but the way to do it was not really discussed. I hope that this tutorial will be useful for other non-tech-savvy people like myself who would like to get their vault synced ac…

No Obsidian Git needed with its less capable Isomorphic Git, only libgit2 within A-Shell (Working Copy uses libgit2 under the hood as well).