Easy automatic backups from logseq to github (or any git host)

[phoenixeliot]

If you turn on git commits, you can add a git hook to the repo that automatically pushes to your git remote host every time it commits!

The setup:

1. Turn on Settings > Version Control > Enable Git auto commit
2. Restart logseq
3. Create a private repository on github or your git host of choice
4. cd into the folder that stores your logseq data
5. ls -al .git should list a .git file as existing by now
6. git remote add origin <ssh path to your github repo>
7. cat .git which should print something like this (this is for iCloud, path will vary): gitdir: /Users/phoenix/.logseq/git/_Users_phoenix_Library_Mobile Documents_iCloud~com~logseq~logseq_Documents/.git
8. git config core.hooksPath <path from prev command>/hooks to set the hooks path for the repo (may not be necessary on all machines, but was necessary on mine because I have a different global hooksPath)
9. cd into the directory that was in the .git file. Make sure to wrap the path in double quotes if it has spaces in it.
10. git config init.defaultBranch to see the default branch name
11. nano hooks/post-commit to edit the post-commit hook
12. Paste this:

    #!/bin/bash
    echo "post-commit hook"
    git push origin +main
    

    If your default branch name was master, replace main with master
13. ctrl-x then Y, then enter to save and quit nano
14. chmod +x hooks/post-commit to make the file executable

That should be all! Now every time logseq does an auto-commit, it should automatically get pushed to your github repo.

[arjunattam]

Since I was stuck on this for a bit: just want to highlight that it's critical to use the SSH url when adding the remote (HTTPS does not work)

[rien7]

kemayo/sublime-text-git#176 (comment)

You can use git config remote.origin.url "https://{token}@github.com/username/project.git