When configuring the Git Repo server, we could optionally track one folder
in the root git repo, instead of just the root folder. This was
specifically to address my use case where I have my journals in a
sub-directory. The setup screen was super ugly, though.
Since now I'm in the process of adding folder support because of #18, I
can remove this hack. It simplifies the code a lot.
With this, the application compiles again. And note editing is working
again. This is was the first of some small refactors in order to
implement both async note loading and a support for directories.
It's time to start using a proper logger so we can control the number of
log messages, also - it helps to have a central configuration point for
the logs, specially since I would like to hook them up to Crashlytics in
the future.
For now I've mostly tried to follow the same style guide as the flutter
repository, with many options disabled. Eventually, maybe it would make
sense to be far stricter.
For now just create a local git repo and commit all the changes over
there, we're going to allow the user to first see the app and use it
however they want, and later connect it to a remote git repo.
This commit breaks the app, as the on-boarding screen is no longer
connected so you cannot push to a remote app.
It all just makes far more since when each Note has a fileName.
Though we don't save the fileName in the YAML header. It seems quite
redundant to do that.
Another advantage of this is that if we can read any file ending with a
'.md' in a git repo. It doesn't need to be named exactly how we want it,
and we will still save the details correctly.
For this journaling app, even though we are treating journal entries as
notes, we don't really any 'id'. Just the filename is quite adequate. In
the future, we can figure out this 'id' nonsense, and if it is even
required given that we're always going to be built on top of a FS.
This sucks balls. Overall, the datetime handling in Dart is really
really bad. It just has the concept of local time or utc time. There are
a few packages which attempt to solve this, but none which really solve
it in the way I would like.
All I want is someway to generate an iso8601 string with the timezone.
And that my DateTime should be aware of the timezone as an offset east
of UTC. Is that really so hard?
Now notes are saved in the git repo, and immediately synced. This is not
the best implementation, as the notes are being reloaded a lot, and
the error handling is terrible (I miss golang). But it's the first
working poc.
We get the path ourselves as the 'git plugin' is using the
android 'getFilesDir()', instead of 'getDataDir()' which is what the
path_provider returns.
It's strange that it returns the latter as the Android docs clearly
state that one should not use this path and should use getFilesDir
instead.
This simplifies the code quite a bit, at the cost of using this
strange flutter magic of an 'InheritedWidget'.
It basically make a class a global variable.
