[Feature request]: Use git as a syncing method

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[Feature request]: Use git as a syncing method #693

Closed rong-xiaoli closed 1 month ago

rong-xiaoli commented 1 month ago

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As I said, I suggest using git as a syncing method. Which may act like pulling from a git repo for a period of time, and commit and push for another (maybe longer) period of time. The idea comes from here, obsidian-git.

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CodeDoctorDE commented 1 month ago

This could be a nice addition but I have two things that I want to say:

First: To add this, we need a git client. Why not using the git installed on the system? Because android doesn't allow this. Then we need to ship a big git client inside the app.
Second (even bigger): The current file format is zip. Zip cannot work really good with binary data since it doesn't allow showing exact line changes

I have currently no idea how to fix these two things. Feel free to answer here!

rong-xiaoli commented 1 month ago

I can't answer these two questions immediately. I suggest remain the issue close as not planned before someone can come up with a new idea.