How do I make a Tangent workspace a Git repository as well?

[Wolf-SO]

I'm interested in taking my notes under version control. This is for two reasons:

• to have safety copies on GitLab, GitHub, etc.
• be able to add comments to changes.

Is there anything wrong with this idea, in particular, is the .git folder secure, or should I place the repo in the parent folder?
How should I treat the contents of the .tangent folders?

As far as I understand, the .tangent/tangents folder contains machine-specific data: it contains the names of the different computers between which I had transferred my Tangent workspaces back and forth using a USB stick.

[taylorhadden]

I think this is a great idea. I do it with my own notes. The .git folder is explicitly ignored by Tangent, so you should be totally fine with wherever the Tangent workspace ends up.

Looking at my .gitignore, it looks like I've not been the best about keeping stuff out that should be out. Here's my recommendation:

.tangent/generated # Where the index lives
.tangent/tangents # Machine-specific history
.tangent/Temp # Where unnamed queries go
.tangent/workspaces # Machine-specific view state

[Wolf-SO]

And what about these two?

.tangent/tags
.tangent/workspace-settings.json

[taylorhadden]

The tags folder contains metadata about tags in the workspace. They should be okay for cross-machine usage. Workspace settings contain things like creation rules and active styles. Include that if you want to sync this across all machines.