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--- technical:notes_cherrytree_git_sync [2025/05/27 16:16] – Major clean up getting page ready for real usage. super_stunder
+++ technical:notes_cherrytree_git_sync [2025/05/27 18:44] (current) – super_stunder
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-FIXME
+====== Using Git to sync CherryTree notes between systems ======
+As much as I love posting information and stories to this site for others to consume there are other things I don't want put out on the web like my personal journal.  Not like there is anything "bad" in there its just boring stuff I don't think most people would be interested in.  I like to keep these notes in [[https://www.giuspen.net/cherrytree/|CherryTree]].  As it says in the official repo "A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in either a single file (xml or sqlite) or multiple files and directories."
+I have used the application on Windows for keeping track of my projects at work and other one offs.  I was really bad about just keeping things in notepad and after a while looked for alternatives.  Spent a little bit of time with notepad++ but ended up pretty happy with CherryTree and I have used it ever since.
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+The one feature CherryTree is missing is the ability to sync between different host.  I am not trying to sync things between teams of people or anything I just want to sync my own notes between my own devices.   Well it looks like this is another job for my personal [[hosting_your_own_git|git repos]].
+Alright I explained enough about the git repo setup on the host your own git page, in the case of CherryTree I am not going to use the repos directory.  I had already started saving CherryTree notes to a folder under my home documents called "CherryTree_Docs".  When saving files in CherryTree they aren't saved as raw text files you can save them in a SQLite file or in XML format.
-cd ~/Documents/CherryTree_Docs/
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-git init
+I saved my documents as SQLite before I started this whole process.  These files are in binary database type format which so far is working when I push/pull from the git repo, but If I had to do it again I may go with XML format for the git merging possibilities.  I am going to stick with the SQLite for now and will update this if I ever decide to change.
-git status
+** Step 1: Initialize the repository from the directory you save CherryTree files in **
+<code>
+nugget@tiptop:~$ cd ~/Documents/CherryTree_Docs/
+nugget@tiptop:~/Documents/CherryTree_Docs/ git init
+nugget@tiptop:~/Documents/CherryTree_Docs/ git status
 On branch main
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 nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
-eric@kalin-emcwilliams:~/Documents/CherryTree_Docs$ git add -A
-eric@kalin-emcwilliams:~/Documents/CherryTree_Docs$ git status
+nugget@tiptop:~/Documents/CherryTree_Docs$ git add -A
+nugget@tiptop:~/Documents/CherryTree_Docs$ git status
 On branch main
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 	new file:   Kaiser_IT_Planning.ctb~~~
-eric@kalin-emcwilliams:~/Documents/CherryTree_Docs$ git commit -m "Initialize repository"
+nugget@tiptop:~/Documents/CherryTree_Docs$ git commit -m "Initialize repository"
 [main (root-commit) 1c6be2f] Initialize repository
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  create mode 100644 Kaiser_IT_Planning.ctb~~
  create mode 100644 Kaiser_IT_Planning.ctb~~~
-eric@kalin-emcwilliams:~/Documents/CherryTree_Docs$
+nugget@tiptop:~/Documents/CherryTree_Docs$
+</code>
+As you may notice CherryTree has some of its own versioning/roll back methods.  I believe this is done by naming files with the ctb extension then adding the tilde ~, ~~, ~~~ I haven't had to dig that far into it yet but I this seems to be the logic from some of my brief reading.
+** Step 2: Building a bare repo on your git server **
 SSH to your remote host and setup the bare repo: (this is assuming you have the right accounts and sshkeys setup)
-ssh eric@gitshed.igazine.com
-mkdir -p git/cherrytree.git
+<code>
-git init --bare git/cherrytree.git
+nugget@tiptop:~$ ssh nugget@gitshed.igazine.com
+Last login: Tue May 27 15:18:33 2025 from 127.0.0.1
+nugget@gitshed:~$ mkdir -p git/cherrytree.git
+nugget@gitshed:~$ git init --bare git/cherrytree.git
+</code>
+** Step 3: Pushing to the git server **
 Now return back to the host with the ChreeyTree .ctb files and sync these files to the remote repo.
-eric@kalin-emcwilliams:~/Documents/CherryTree_Docs$ git remote add origin eric@gitshed.igazine.com:/home/eric/projects/git/cherrytree.git
+<code>
-eric@kalin-emcwilliams:~/Documents/CherryTree_Docs$ git branch -M main
+nugget@tiptop:~/Documents/CherryTree_Docs$ git remote add origin nugget@gitshed.igazine.com:/home/nugget/git/cherrytree.git
-eric@kalin-emcwilliams:~/Documents/CherryTree_Docs$ git push -u origin main
+nugget@tiptop:~/Documents/CherryTree_Docs$ git branch -M main
+nugget@tiptop:~/Documents/CherryTree_Docs$ git push -u origin main
 Enumerating objects: 20, done.
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 Writing objects: 100% (20/20), 158.20 KiB | 17.58 MiB/s, done.
 Total 20 (delta 16), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
-To gitshed.igazine.com:/home/eric/projects/git/cherrytree.git
+To gitshed.igazine.com:/home/nugget/git/cherrytree.git
  * [new branch]      main -> main
 branch 'main' set up to track 'origin/main'.
+</code>
 And this is my first edit after pulling the DB down to my laptop... Holy Hell it works!  I just need to remember to git push from my laptop to the remote server and sync on my workstation before editing again.
 I am saving these files as SQLite but I am now thinking I could do XML instead, the git merge possiblites are attractive but need to test.