Is there a way to set --git_dir?

[zfei]

I have a setup of syncing obsidian repos between Mac and Win via iCloud Drive.
Initially, I put the .git in the root dir of the obsidian repo, but iCloud always messes up the objects in .git when I switch OS.

Now I'm thinking of having a git directory for each machine locally that's not synced by iCloud, and have a host specific --git_dir for the plugin to pass to git binary.

Going through the current plugin setting scheme, I guess adding a GIT_DIR env var into the "Additional PATH env var paths" could help? Yet when I tried it out on Windows, it looks like the plugin tries to split the : in my disk reference, i.e. D:\.

Is the PATH field a right fit for my use case? If so, how do I set it on WIndows?

Thanks in advance.

[erauner12]

+1 I would like to do this as well.

Though I want to point obsidian-git plugin at --git-dir=.gitContent for the purpose of having a separation of revision history to .md content and obsidian vault files

[narze]

I found a workaround using plaintext .git file similar to this issue #55
however I cannot use ~ to direct it to my home directory so I use relative path to the vault path in iCloud

Assuming that your .git is at ~/obsidian.git, create .git file with this content:

gitdir: ../../../../../obsidian.git

If all of your machines share the same username you can use absolute path, too

gitdir: /Users/yourusername/obsidian.git

However it would be best if this plugin supports setting git & gitdir from the plugin's option, since isomorphic-git already supported those options https://isomorphic-git.org/docs/en/dir-vs-gitdir, or at least support adding environment variables apart from PATH so I can set GIT_DIR

[Vinzent03]

You should now be able to specify a GIT_DIR via a new added setting. Works for mobile as well.

[zfei]

Works like a charm. Thank you guys!