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Installation

Even though this plugin itself is desktop platform independent, some false installation of Obsidian or Git breaks the plugin.

Plugin installation

From within Obsidian

Go to "Settings" -> "Community plugins" -> "Browse", search for "Obsidian Git", install and enable.

Manual

  1. Download obsidian-git-<latest-version>.zip from the latest release
  2. Unpack the zip in <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-git
  3. Reload Obsidian (CTRL + R)
  4. Go to settings and disable safe mode
  5. Enable Obsidian Git

Windows

Git installation

Make sure you have 3rd-party software access enabled.

For additional advice on using Obsidian Git for the tech unfamiliar take a look at foreveryone#6438's great tutorial

Linux

Obsidian installation

Known supported package managers:

Known not supported package managers

  • Snap (Snap puts Obsidian in kind of a sandbox, so that Obsidian can't access Git)

If you installed Obsidian a while ago via Flatpak and it doesn't work please run the following snippet.

$ flatpak update md.obsidian.Obsidian
$ flatpak override --reset md.obsidian.Obsidian
$ flatpak run md.obsidian.Obsidian

Source of this snippet

MacOS

Nothing specific.