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Re:Emacs' org-mode gets citation support by singingfish on Thursday August 05, 2021 @06:01PM (#28080566)
So I discovered recently that if you set up git-auto-commit mode with an org directory tree, then configure it to auto-push to gitlab on add/change, I get nicely formatted documents for free.

Later on I can convert them via pandoc to docx or markdown so they can end up in sharepoint/confluence and I only minimally have to touch either of those horror shows.

I was writing some docs yesterday, and my colleague who's always bagging me about my use of nothing but emacs and terminals complimented how nice it looked rendered in gitlab.

Re:Emacs' org-mode gets citation support by dv35z on Friday August 06, 2021 @12:45AM (#28083407)
Could you share specifics on how to set this up?

I’m interested in having a “local” personal knowledge base (currently using Obsidian—>Hugo site —> GitHub —>AWS Amplify / Netlify)

Your setup sounds extremely useful. I haven’t tried Emacs / org-mode / org-roam, but the more I read about it, the more curious I am getting. If you have advice, I’d love to hear it.

Re:Emacs' org-mode gets citation support by singingfish on Friday August 06, 2021 @02:13AM (#28083863)
I had to look it up but this lives in `.dir_locals.el` in the root of the git repo. Including the comments of what to put in .emacs I think that's everything needed:

    (
     ( nil .
           ((eval git-auto-commit-mode 1))
           )
     )

    ;; and chuck this in your .emacs
    ; (setq-default gac-ask-for-summary-p t)
    ; (setq-default gac-automatically-push-p t)