History with git

You can save your notes in a local git repository for backup purposes or to have a chronological history of changes.

To enable this feature go to Settings -> Other and enable the option "Backup notes to local git repository".
Also enter a path to an existing, but empty directory where the repository will be created and insert author-name & author-email used for the commits.

Attention:
AlephNote does not come with its own git binary and instead uses the git command it finds in your PATH environment.
This means you need to have git installed and in a working state for AlephNote to function.
All AlephNote does is copy the needed files and issue the correct git commands

After you have enabled the local git backup AlephNote will (try to) create a repository in the choosen folder and every change you do will result in an update of the folder content and a commit to the local repository.

To make sure everything is working or to diagnose errors you can inspect the log (under the menu entry Help), there you should see log entries tagged with LocalGitMirror. Eventually you need to enable the "debug" checkbox to see all log events.

 

Another feature is "automatic push". If you enable this option AlephNote will issue a git push after every change. You are responsible that a valid remote is configured, available and the required authentication is supplied.
The result of the git push command is also visible in the log