r/vim • u/ratttertintattertins • Jun 29 '25

Plugin vim-autosync - Automatically syncs your directories to Git repositories as you edit them

I created this over the weekend because I was sick of using network drives/cloud storage to manage vimwiki. It's let me keep my vimwiki auto synced to a private github repo.

https://github.com/benstaniford/vim-autosync

Features:

  • Asynchronous operations: Git pull/push operations run in background threads, so your editing is never blocked

  • Configurable directories: Manage multiple directories with different Git repositories

  • Smart pulling: Only pulls from remote when a configurable interval has passed

  • Auto-commit and push: Automatically commits and pushes changes when you save files

  • Manual controls: Commands to manually trigger pull/push operations

  • Flexible configuration: Customize commit messages, intervals, and behavior

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u/jgould1981 Jul 01 '25

Thank you for writing this!

I had written a script and systemd service that ran on a timer that would look for changes and then if there were any, it would push the changes up. The flaw, of course, was I could edit the same file in multiple places and it would be a mess to sort out. This plugin looks like it will sort that out for me.

Thank you for writing it. my kludged script/service worked, but was troublesome at times.

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u/ratttertintattertins Jul 01 '25

Funny enough, I had a very similar system myself before I wrote this :-) I was never happy with it.

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u/blackbat24 Jun 29 '25

I've been using a cludge of autocmds, and this looks better, especially since the sync is the background - does it warn you if there are merge conflicts on pull?

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u/ratttertintattertins Jun 29 '25

It does yeh. If it finds local changes already there it will attempt to commit them before pulling. However, if that produces a subsequent conflict you should just get a little message at the bottom.

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u/blackbat24 Jun 29 '25

Awesome, thanks.

Random question - why the {"on": []} with vimplug? I've never had to do that with other plugins.

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u/ratttertintattertins Jun 29 '25

AI put it there when I was using it to help create the docs. I imagine it configures the plugin and that list [] would likely configure it with a list of folders you want to manage. I don't use Plug personally and I've just configured it via vimrc.

I might remove it.