Using Visual Studio Code with git-server and openHABian

[binderth (Thomas Binder)]

@rlkoshak

I posted somewhere how I set mine up using .gitignore to only get the important stuff from userdata. I’m on my phone with sorry service so can’t really find it. Let me know if you can’t and I’ll try to dig it up again when I get back to service.

I confess I already was on that thread - and forgot about it…

Best approach for git and openhab config

The same as for conf. I initially did a git init, copied over the conf and userdata folders to get started (also ~openhab/.java as that is where the oauth token stuff is stored for Nest connections). So I really just have the one repo which contains both my conf and userdata. I don’t do anything different for the two. About the only complaint that I have with this setup is my cloned repo OH runs on is almost always “dirty” because I have code that copies around icons for weather and the jsondb…