Question about backup script

[rkorell]

@sdetweil said :

you could use git config to save those, and avoid the prompts

Sounds cool.
How can I do this?

Thanks!
Ralf

[sdetweil]

@rkorell google is your friend

how to use git config

[rkorell]

@sdetweil said in Question about backup script:

if i find extra files i need a place to store them, so the module name for a folder is created

Thanks for this explanation - this is what I had assumed.

Regards,
Ralf

[rkorell]

@sdetweil said in Question about backup script:

how to use git config

OK, thanks.
I had understood that this is a config of your scripts, sorry.

[sdetweil]

@rkorell no… you can store config settings for git (the source code repository tool MagicMirror uses and most modules use (…git clone))
and the way to make the repository that the backup uses

[rkorell]

@sdetweil as far as google told me it seems, I need to install Git CLI - which is not easy available for Raspi.

Any hint?

Sorry!
Ralf

[rkorell]

O.K,. Google is not my friend today…
It seems that a “.gitconfig” file will do the trick …
Will double check.

[rkorell]

Nope.
Doesnt’t work.
Have created a “.gitconfig” file with

git config --global --edit

Entered user, email and password - but your script asks again for “user” …

???

Thanks
Ralf

[sdetweil]

@rkorell the SCRIPT does not prompt

I use these git config parms

if [ "$user_name." == "." ]; then
	# prompt for users name
	git config --local user.name $user_name
else	
	git config --local user.name $user_name
fi
if [ "$email." == "." ]; then
	# prompt for email address
	git config --local user.email $email
else
	git config --local user.email $email
fi

git will prompt

[sdetweil]

@rkorell you HAVE the git cli

git --help
(–local means in this folder only)

git config --local user.name “your name”
git config --local user.email “your email”

see here

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35942754/how-can-i-save-username-and-password-in-git

and username means github userid

[rkorell]

@sdetweil said in Question about backup script:

@rkorell the SCRIPT does not prompt
I use these git config parms

OK, where do you get this from?
If I have a look at your other post „local means this folder only“ let me assume that you may look at „$HOME/MagicMirror/.gitconfig“
Is this true?
Than this cannot work because my

git config --global --edit

created a .gitconfig in $HOME …

Will at least try your suggestion with git config … (THANKS for this - the stackoverflow article will be chacked as well)

Warmest regards,

Ralf

[sdetweil]

@rkorell if you don’t have a global ($HOME) git config,
i dont presume to decide this for you.
so i only set it in the MM_backup folder

[sdetweil]

@rkorell git will look local first and global second

[rkorell]

@sdetweil
Your:

git config --local user.name “my name”
git config --local user.email “my email”
plus
git config --local user.password “myverylonggithubtoken”

does the trick…

The stackoverflow article is confusing to me but your suggestion is there :-)
Thanks a lot!

Warm regards,
Ralf