How to synchronize the local repository to GitHub regularly? #903

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1. tonghejiao commented on Oct 6, 2026

   

   tonghejiao

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   I know I can achieve it by configuring launchd in the mac system. Because that's what I'm doing now.

   But this is not convenient, and when I don't open the warehouse file, I regularly scan the warehouse and try to submit it to the remote, which is an unnecessary resource expense.
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4. adibhanna commented on Oct 6, 2026

   

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   Thanks for the question! ZenNotes has no built-in Git sync today, so your launchd job is the right tool for now. Two things that may help:

   • If the goal is having your notes on every device, ZenNotes Cloud (Settings → Cloud) syncs the vault in the background and keeps backups, with no Git setup.

   • To keep the launchd job cheap, have the script exit before committing when nothing changed:

     cd ~/Notes || exit 1
     [ -z "$(git status --porcelain)" ] && exit 0
     git add -A && git commit -m "Sync $(date '+%F %R')" && git push

     git status --porcelain takes milliseconds on a notes vault, so running it every few minutes costs almost nothing, and the commit and push only happen when there is something to send.

   I'm keeping this open as a feature request for Git sync built into the app.
5. tonghejiao commented on Oct 7, 2026

   

   tonghejiao

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   Thank you for your script, but considering that the step of git push may fail, there is a follow-up measure, so we can't judge whether to perform the follow-up operation just by the result of git status --porcelain, so I'm here every time I will try to push.

   At the same time, thank you for your serious reply. I look forward to building in such a function in the future.