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Windows

Installation with Chocolatey
Git, Obsidian & GitHub Desktop can be installed using
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Install git
Install Obsidian, but don’t create a new vault
Install GitHub Desktop, select your private repo obsidian-backup and click “Clone yourusername/obsidian-backup”
Change your local path to your liking and click “Clone”

Obsidian → Open folder as vault → select folder → Trust and enable plugins

Git → Sign in with your browser

Required settings that are not synced

Options → Editor → Behavior → Spellcheck languages → Add English
Options → Community plugins → Git → Commit message → {{hostname}} placeholder replacement
Open Source view: “Open command palette” → “Git: Open source control view”

Warning

Empty folders are not saved to git, unless they contain a .gitkeep file (and are thus not empty, duh).

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