No Authentication Section in Settings

[mpfp]

I don't see an Authentication section in the Settings. I'm on Windows and I have git installed and on the path (can use it on the command line). Where do I put an authentication token or password?

[ajmazz]

Same. Macbook Air M1, OS Ventura 13.1

[Fnige]

Same here. Linux, Fedora 37, Flathub

[kevinnmark]

+1
Macbook Pro
OS Big Sur 11.7.2
Obsidian v.1.1.9 (Installer 0.15.9)

[albinotonnina]

Same, OSX, Version 1.1.9 (Installer 1.1.9)

[sawasawasawa]

I don't have time to work on a PR for that now, but commenting out these to force using isomorphic git allowed me to do the local setup ;)

[r-menezes]

I had the following error:

git obsidian error: /usr/bin/gh auth git-credential get: line 1: /usr/bin/gh: No such file or directory
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such device or address

using the suggestion by @sawasawasawa worked and I was able to commit, pull and push.

[mikes-bowden]

Lort, this was a 3-hour endeavor to find this. Why in the world is this not set by default?

Also, for anyone confused, the file @sawasawasawa mentioned, which did fix my issue, is located inside the /YOURVAULT/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-git/main.js

Search for:

this.gitManager = new SimpleGit(this);

[Vinzent03]

@sawasawasawa I understand using isomorphic-git makes authentication a lot easier, BUT it's way slower and doesn't support all featuers, because it's a complete reimplementation of Git in javascript. For example is the merge conflict solver not as good as native git.

I tried to come up with the most general solution as possible, without having to install too much packages or write many config. I summarized it here. May you try it out and tell me how it's working? I can't test it on all operating systems. Especially not macOS.

[sawasawasawa]

@Vinzent03 Can't promise, but I will try to arrange some time for that on the weekend ;) Just to clarify - you want me to test the macOs part here https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git/wiki/Authentication#macos ?

Is your testing procedure described somewhere? I'd rather not mess too much with my main vault ;)

[Vinzent03]

@sawasawasawa I doesn't change anything in your vault. It changes a global git config, which doesn't affect your vault in any way currently, because you use isomorphic-git.

[sawasawasawa]

@Vinzent03 Ok I think I understand better now what was causing the confusion.

2 weeks ago I initiated the vault on my mobile, connected it to the repo and afterwards created a new vault on desktop, and imported the vault using the plugin. After doing so when I reloaded obsidian some config from the mobile must have been used and it was missing the some data.

I did it the other way round today:

1. Initiated a new repo on github
2. Wired it up with using obsidian git (and here I can confirm that macOs keychain authentication indeed is working as expected)
3. created a new vault on mobile
4. added obsidian git on mobile, configured using a PAT
5. cloned the vault to mobile - then I have to restart the application, and the PAT config disappears.

I am not sure if @mpfp @albinotonnina @kevinnmark @FnigePython @r-menezes @mikes-bowden were facing the same issue. Anyways it seems like the authentication procedure and iOs/OSX combination setup could be better described (and probably mentioned somehow in the settings). Having said that, and having solved my issues the hacky way - I am not sure how it should look like :P

[Vinzent03]

@sawasawasawa

some config from the mobile must have been used and it was missing the some data.

Please be more specific, what exactly was the issue?

then I have to restart the application, and the PAT config disappears.

Do you mean that the password field was empty? That's by design, it's still stored, but not shown.

I don't think it was necessary to create a new GitHub repository and vault, but great it's working now.

[lowercasename]

I'm experiencing this too. New vault created today, never used the plugin before.

[Vinzent03]

Please follow the documentation