Joplin git integration for backup and history

[dpoulton]

This has come up in a few posts on the forum. If you have a search you should find them. One of the posts has this reply from @laurent

Git for file syncing

Using a git repo has been suggested many times but so far noone tried to implement this. I expect bundling a git client with desktop and especially mobile would not be an easy task, assuming it can be done with React Native. Not sure about performance either. The unit of operation for Joplin is a file read or write, and the unit for git is the commit. So does that mean there should be millions of commits, one per file? Or if not, then the way Joplin sync works would need to be changed completel…