Commits on the web

Mahfouz commits your changes to the folder’s repository as the desktop app does: about 30 seconds after you stop typing, or right away with Manual save (CtrlS, ⌘S on a Mac). The commits are ordinary git commits: the desktop app, a terminal or any git tool sees them.

Commits use the name and email in the repository’s own configuration (.git/config). The browser can’t read your computer’s global git settings (~/.gitconfig), so in a repository without its own, web commits are authored as Mahfouz <mahfouz@local> (as the desktop app’s are in a vault it created). To commit under your name, set it once in the repository; the desktop app uses it too:

git config user.name "Your Name"
git config user.email "you@example.com"

Read-only vaults

Some git settings change what git stores, and the web version can’t apply them. A vault that uses one opens read-only on the web: you can read and edit notes, and changes are saved to the folder, but they aren’t committed. Commit them from the desktop app. The notification names the setting:

• a git filter, such as Git LFS or git-crypt (filter= in .gitattributes);
• line-ending conversion (eol=crlf, or core.autocrlf in the repository’s config), or Windows line endings converted by a setting outside the folder;
• re-encoding (working-tree-encoding) or keyword expansion (ident);
• sparse checkout, or a file added with git add -N.