Feat: Local-only mode that never does any pushes, pulls, ect.

[jboxman]

I have git-annex setup to automatically sync my files between local systems whenever a commit happens. It would be great to handle commit messages and look at diffs within Obsidian, rather than using the CLI and VSCode for this, but it seems to want to run a push or a pull when I change files. (My laptop is closed, so an error is returned from git-annex via git; this is to be expected because the git-annex agent runs in the background and syncs whenever other systems are reachable.)

Thanks!

[Vinzent03]

You can disable push on backup via the settings. If you can't find the necessary toggles, please share your config and I can tell you. But you should get it by reading the setting descriptions.

[kg4zow]

You might be able to set up a "remote" in another directory on the same machine and let it push/pull.

• Create an empty directory somewhere
• In that other directory, git init --bare
  • this will create a bunch of files very similar to what you would see in a normal working directory's .git/ directory
• In the vault's directory, git remote add origin file::///path/to/bare/repo and git push -u origin branchname
  • careful, the URL has three / in a row - two are part of the file:// scheme, and the third one starts an absolute path name ... for me the actual URL was file:///Users/jms1/git/zdummy

After this, the git push, git pull, and other such commands that it insists on doing, will be "pushing" to another directory on the local machine.

Disclaimer: this should work, but I haven't tested it. I just started using Obsidian a week ago, tried this plugin for the first time earlier today, and still don't have it working yet. It's entirely possible that the plugin assumes a need for authentication which wouldn't exist with a file:// URL (or in my case, a keybase:// URL).