Git Feature in Publii v.0.44.0 Alpha

[anonymous] wrote:

<h2>How It Works</h2>
Publii fetches the content from your repository prior to rendering your website. During synchronization, any changes you’ve made will override the existing repository state. A commit consisting of the modified files will then be created and pushed to your repository.

Note: Changes made directly to your repository will not affect your website content, as it will be superseded by the rendering process and the newly generated commit.

Can you clarify a bit on the How It Works paragraph? The way it’s described doesn’t sound exactly like the workflow I’m used to for Git in Visual Studio Code for example, or am I just not reading it right?

When I start VS Code I can see in the lower left corner if there’s been any changes made to the repository and I can just click a button to sync those changes. This makes it easy to work with the same repository from multiple devices or with multiple users. If Publii’s Git integration will work like this, it would make it possible to work on the same site from multiple devices. Is there any reason why it shouldn’t work like that?

Tomasz Dziuda wrote:

@jabchew – this feature is not dedicated for syncing website between devices, but for syncing local website with repository in one direction. In fact two-way sync is impossible in this way, because you should sync the input files of the website too. And then use them to render website.

At this moment we have focused to allow use of git to sync output files with repository as fast as possible.

Ok, so syncing only handles the `C:\Users\%username%\Documents\Publii\sites\site-name\output` folder and in one direction – to the Git repository – and it will overwrite whatever content that may have been added there outside of Publii?

I see how syncing all of the folders could be an issue as it would mean duplicates of media for example, which might practically double the storage used.

I’m guessing that the only practical way of multi-device usage for now is to use the Dropbox solution, which should work with just about any similar service like OneDrive or Proton Drive, and then just configure Git sync in Publii on all devices.

Wonderful solution… but there is a main point that is blocking me from using it: username and password of my git SaaS are stored in clear in the site.config.json.

If I may take the liberty of making a suggestion.

All the deployment part should be saved in a separate settings file, even better if encrypted (https://doc.libsodium.org/ could be an instrument).

aaart – I will check this case too – if I will be able to reproduce it, then I will fix it 🙂