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Organizing the working directory

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      Organizing the working directory

Step-1:


Create gitlab account for the year. Other options are github, bitbucket etc.,


Now we start with current year i.e. say  2020, then create a repository named 2020  preferably in gitlab.


Clone this repository to the local home directory


For each folder we need inside 2020, create a git repo in remote and then add it to local 2020 repo as submodule.
Suppose if you want a folder named dev in 2020. Then create a remote repo for dev and add it to local 2020 as submodule

[master] ~/2020 $ git submodule add dev
Note: For every commit in submodule, you have to make a commit in main git i.e. 2020 so that it will point to lastest commit for corresponding submodule.


If you need encrypted repository for personal information, then you can try git-remote-gcrypt.

Say for a repository personal, you need encrypted repository, then create personal repository in remote. Add it as submodule in local repository. Then create a gitcrypt remote inside local personal folder.
git remote add gitcrypt gcrypt::git@gitlab.com:ACCOUNT_NAME/personal.git#next
git config remote.gitcrypt.gcrypt-participants "<gpg-key-id>"
Also add GPG Keys in gitlab account settings.

For more details refer Encrypted Git remotes with git-remote-gcrypt


Step-2:


Create a goggle drive account and add a folder named 2020 into it.


Configure rclone for access to this remote 2020. For this your need to make an oAuth2 connection with client_id and client_secret creation in google developer console.


Create a mirror folder like $HOME/gcloud/2020 for rsyncing 2020 to it. We can exclude .git, .swp etc., in rsync.

rsync -avz --exclude '.git' --exclude '.trash' --exclude '.*.swp' --exclude 'plugins' --exclude 'python2.7' --exclude 'lib' --exclude 'python3.5' --exclude 'python3.5' $HOME/2020/. $HOME/gcloud/2020/


Sync the mirror 2020 folder to google drive using rclone copy. A crontab entry can do  regular sync.

rclone copy $HOME/gcloud/2020 remote2020: -v


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