Stop caching the gitBaseDir

It makes the entire code base far more complicated and the round trip to
get the directory really isn't that much. This is a massive
micro-optimization for very little benefit.

lib/app.dart

@@ -54,25 +54,14 @@ class JournalApp extends StatefulWidget {
       _enableAnalyticsIfPossible(settings);
     }
 
-    if (appSettings.gitBaseDirectory.isEmpty) {
     var dir = await getApplicationDocumentsDirectory();
-      appSettings.gitBaseDirectory = dir.path;
+    appState.gitBaseDirectory = dir.path;
-      appSettings.save();
-    }
-
-    if (!Directory(appSettings.gitBaseDirectory).existsSync()) {
-      Log.w("Applications Documents Directory no longer exists");
-      var dir = await getApplicationDocumentsDirectory();
-      appSettings.gitBaseDirectory = dir.path;
-      appSettings.save();
-      Log.i("New Documents Directory Path ${dir.path}");
-    }
 
     if (settings.localGitRepoConfigured == false) {
       // FIXME: What about exceptions!
       settings.localGitRepoFolderName = "journal_local";
       var repoPath = p.join(
-        appSettings.gitBaseDirectory,
+        appState.gitBaseDirectory,
         settings.localGitRepoFolderName,
       );
       await GitRepository.init(repoPath);
@@ -88,7 +77,7 @@ class JournalApp extends StatefulWidget {
           return StateContainer(
             appState: appState,
             settings: settings,
-            gitBaseDirectory: appSettings.gitBaseDirectory,
+            gitBaseDirectory: appState.gitBaseDirectory,
           );
         },
         child: ChangeNotifierProvider(

lib/app_settings.dart

@@ -34,8 +34,6 @@ class AppSettings extends ChangeNotifier {
   var experimentalMarkdownToolbar = false;
   var experimentalGraphView = false;
 
-  var gitBaseDirectory = "";
-
   void load(SharedPreferences pref) {
     onBoardingCompleted = pref.getBool("onBoardingCompleted") ?? false;
 
@@ -63,8 +61,6 @@ class AppSettings extends ChangeNotifier {
         experimentalMarkdownToolbar;
     experimentalGraphView =
         pref.getBool("experimentalGraphView") ?? experimentalGraphView;
-
-    gitBaseDirectory = pref.getString("gitBaseDirectory") ?? "";
   }
 
   Future<void> save() async {
@@ -91,7 +87,6 @@ class AppSettings extends ChangeNotifier {
         defaultSet.experimentalGraphView);
 
     pref.setInt("appSettingsVersion", version);
-    pref.setString("gitBaseDirectory", gitBaseDirectory);
 
     notifyListeners();
   }
@@ -110,7 +105,6 @@ class AppSettings extends ChangeNotifier {
       'experimentalFs': experimentalFs.toString(),
       'experimentalMarkdownToolbar': experimentalMarkdownToolbar.toString(),
       'experimentalGraphView': experimentalGraphView.toString(),
-      'gitBaseDirectory': gitBaseDirectory.toString(),
     };
   }
 

lib/appstate.dart

@@ -17,4 +17,5 @@ class AppState {
   }
 
   NotesFolderFS notesFolder;
+  var gitBaseDirectory = "";
 }

lib/screens/settings_git_remote.dart

@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ import 'package:git_bindings/git_bindings.dart';
 import 'package:path/path.dart' as p;
 import 'package:provider/provider.dart';
 
-import 'package:gitjournal/app_settings.dart';
 import 'package:gitjournal/screens/settings_widgets.dart';
 import 'package:gitjournal/settings.dart';
 import 'package:gitjournal/setup/screens.dart';
@@ -133,8 +132,7 @@ class _GitRemoteSettingsScreenState extends State<GitRemoteSettingsScreen> {
     }
 
     var stateContainer = Provider.of<StateContainer>(context);
-    var appSettings = Provider.of<AppSettings>(context);
+    var gitDir = stateContainer.appState.gitBaseDirectory;
-    var gitDir = appSettings.gitBaseDirectory;
 
     // Figure out the next available folder
     String repoFolderName = "journal_";

lib/setup/screens.dart

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ import 'package:url_launcher/url_launcher.dart';
 
 import 'package:gitjournal/analytics.dart';
 import 'package:gitjournal/apis/githost_factory.dart';
-import 'package:gitjournal/app_settings.dart';
 import 'package:gitjournal/error_reporting.dart';
 import 'package:gitjournal/settings.dart';
 import 'package:gitjournal/setup/autoconfigure.dart';
@@ -22,6 +21,7 @@ import 'package:gitjournal/setup/clone_url.dart';
 import 'package:gitjournal/setup/loading_error.dart';
 import 'package:gitjournal/setup/repo_selector.dart';
 import 'package:gitjournal/setup/sshkey.dart';
+import 'package:gitjournal/state_container.dart';
 import 'package:gitjournal/utils.dart';
 import 'package:gitjournal/utils/logger.dart';
 
@@ -468,8 +468,8 @@ class GitHostSetupScreenState extends State<GitHostSetupScreen> {
       gitCloneErrorMessage = "";
     });
 
-    final appSettings = Provider.of<AppSettings>(context);
+    var stateContainer = Provider.of<StateContainer>(context);
-    var basePath = appSettings.gitBaseDirectory;
+    var basePath = stateContainer.appState.gitBaseDirectory;
 
     // Just in case it was half cloned because of an error
     String repoPath = p.join(basePath, widget.repoFolderName);

test_driver/main.dart

@@ -27,9 +27,6 @@ void main() async {
 Future<void> populateWithData(SharedPreferences pref) async {
   var dir = await getApplicationDocumentsDirectory();
 
-  var appSettings = AppSettings.instance;
-  appSettings.gitBaseDirectory = dir.path;
-
   var settings = Settings.instance;
   settings.localGitRepoConfigured = true;
   settings.localGitRepoFolderName = "journal_local";