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I wish Obsidian used git instead of its own sync protocol and service. I've used it, and it wasn't bad, but I didn't feel comfortable using a third party proprietary and undocumented protocol for notes that I felt were important.

I thought it'd be okay to use the community-maintained Obsidian git plugin, but as fate would have it, my original fears actually came to pass. I lost over a month of notes due to how badly behaved its git merge heuristics are. It force pushes and rewrites history and will step on other machines with different updates. It took me a little while to catch on to the fact my notes were disappearing, and there was nothing I could do to recover.

I ultimately threw up my hands and abandoned Obsidian outright.



I just use Google drive to sync across devices, which also keeps a file history of all changes over the last 30 days (up to 100 versions per file).


I've hit that "git plugin is crap" problem with obsidian too. You've just made me think I should try unison. Also been thinking about a SSG backed with obsidian, sooooo...




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