Auto-Commit & Auto-Sync onSave

[Pymous]

Please select if your request is either something new or an enhancement

• [ ] Enhancement of an existing Feature.
• [x ] Request of a new feature.

Please select the area your request applies to. (Multiple selections are Possible. You can leave blank if you're not sure.)

• [ x] Workspace - VSCode workspace, vaults, Intellisense/autocomplete, Dendron settings
• [ ] Lookup - Dendron's Lookup Command
• [ ] Views - Dendron Preview, Tree View, Side Panels in the UI
• [ ] Schema - Dendron Schemas
• [ ] Pod - Data import from / export to Dendron
• [ ] Publish - External Site Publish
• [ ] Markdown - Markdown features, such as syntax support and features

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

When working on a note on a remote vault (or just a synced up Dendron root file), you either need to commit and push changes yourself, or use the Dendron commands "Workspace : Add and commit" and "Workspace : Sync" to commit with the current time, and push.

That's a time loss right there ! :)

Describe the solution you'd like

As a lazy dev, it would save me and my team a lot of time if a setting could be added to trigger those command onSave.

ie : I'm working on note.project.summary, I'm manually saving it, the commands are triggered and my work is synced automatically.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I can keep doing it manually, eh !

[hikchoi]

Thanks for the request. The on-save behavior is definitely something we should explore more to provide a better experience using Dendron. Hope the workaround we discussed in Discord works out for you in the meantime. We'll keep you posted if we make any progress on this.

[aleksey-rowan]

@Pymous, you don't need to run both commands--running Dendron: Workspace: Sync will both commit and sync, so no need for separate Add and commit unless you want to commit without syncing. In any case, you only need to run a single command.

I had a somewhat related issue opened a while ago asking for automatic index reloading after a sync because the tree view sometimes would not get updated properly:

• https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/issues/1451

I ended up using the ryuta46.multi-command extension to bind Dendron sync (plus some extra commands) to Ctrl + K S:

// settings
"multiCommand.commands": [
  {
      "command": "multiCommand.dendronSyncAndReload",
      "sequence": [
                "workbench.action.files.saveFiles", // to avoid issue when unsaved changes are not synced
                "dendron.sync",
                "dendron.reloadIndex", // to make sure the tree view is properly updated
                "notifications.clearAll" // to clear Dendron's notification after the sync
            ]
  }
]

// keybindings.json
  {
      "key": "ctrl+k s",
      "command": "extension.multiCommand.execute",
      "args": { "command": "multiCommand.dendronSyncAndReload" }
  }

In the end, it's still a manual action, but at least it's fast.

I think you can also use the Power Tools extension to trigger the sync command on save.

[carmenbianca]

Possible duplicate of #2075

[aleksey-rowan]

@carmenbianca, I don't think it's an exact duplicate as this issue talks about triggering a sync based on an event while the one you linked is about periodic sync. Close, but I think there is enough difference to keep both open.