Resources: 
- Follow the instructions [here](https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/how-i-put-my-mind-under-version-control-24caea37b8a5) and document as you go: 
- Refer back to [plists](obsidian://open?vault=Coding%20Tips&file=Computers%2FMac%20OS%20X%2FBBEdit%2Fplist) for a better understanding of implementation and usage. 
- on Cron: https://osxdaily.com/2020/04/27/fix-cron-permissions-macos-full-disk-access/
- apparently the extension [Obsidian-Git](https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git/wiki/Installation#existing-repo) already does this in an easier way now 
- So this is how you [push it to your gitlab](https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/03/15/publishing-obsidian-notes-with-gitlab-pages/)
- Refer to the [Git page](obsidian://open?vault=Obsidian&file=Coding%20Tips%2FComputers%2FTerminal%20Tips%2FGit) on  here for more shortcuts. 

---

#### Syncing my Obsidian: The Steps I took

My Obsidian files are all stored within Google Drive. So in order to maintain sync while still preserving cloud storage space,  I used a few different steps than the guides, and well really it was a culmination of it all. 

1.  **Find your Google Drive location and copy the directory path. 
```
pwd | pbcopy
```

2. Go to your **local** projects  folder and `git init` there locally. 
```
mkdir gitlab_sync
cd  gitlab_sync
git init
git branch -m main 
#renamed branch to main insted of master
#less typing xD

```

3. Then create a bare clone copy into your copied google drive location. 
```
git clone --bare . ~user/Google\ Drive/My\ Drive/folder/location.git
```

4. Then go ahead and make a new remote using this git path inside your local directory. 
```
git remote add NameOfRemote ~user/Google\ Drive/My\ Drive/folder/location.git
```

5. Make some changes to your git repository by adding files and commit those changes. 
```
**git** add LICENSE.md
**git** commit -m 'Initial sync version'
```

6. Then I pushed the changes to the remote google drive location. 
```
git push -u origin main 
```

##### Pushing to Gitlab
7. Next, I added the (SSH) remote of the gitlab server to upload to as well.
```
git remote add NameofRemote git@gitblah.com:user/repo.git
```

8.  I then created another branch for the upload sync to take place. 
```
git branch AnotherBranch
git checkout AnotherBranch #switch into it 
```

9. 

10. Then follow  the instructions [outlined on this article](https://techstreams.medium.com/git-google-drive-simple-git-host-3a84db4fc1fd). Basically you then create a git clone of it in your new directory by  `git clone --bare . PATH_TO_GOOGLE_DRIVE_SYNC_FOLDER/ANY_SUBFOLDER_PATH/PROJECT_NAME.git`
11. Then do a git remote by `git remote add REMOTE_NAME PATH_TO_GOOGLE_DRIVE_SYNC_FOLDER/ANY_SUBFOLDER_PATH/PROJECT_NAME.git`
12. Add files to stage for  commit and commit a message. 
```
git add .
git commit -m "an update message here"
```

13. Lastly, push the changes onto your quantum programming repo. 
```
git push -u origin main 
```
Voila! You should see the changes now [over here](https://gitlab.com/shwetha729/quantum-programming). Or wherever you decided to set up  host the git remote server on. 

#### Syncing via Gitea Server 

This can be done locally or via Google Drive. Go to the folder that you'd like to start the git syncing on and run: 

```
git init 
```

This sets up the git process. Next you have to clone the existing repository and pull . 

```
git clone http://172.104.8.87:3000/shway/Notepad.git
```

And then pull the existing information from the repo.  

```
git pull 
```

---


- Lastly but not leastly, I stumbled upon Perlite in my search for obsidian sync. 
![[Pasted image 20230206134648.png]]
The sample view of Perlite extension.