Move Git From Backup And Sync

Description:

So up until now, I have always been using a folder under my Google Drive for repo’s in Github both personal and work but I have read about these getting out of sync and wanted to get ahead of the curve although everything is currently working (google ‘google drive git corrupt’, example). Here is what I did:

To Resolve:

1. On my home computer, which is starting to be my work computer now due to Covid and permanent work from home (yay!), I copied path://google/my-git-repo to c:/git/my-git-repo. I then did:

   • Deleted path://google/my-git-repo
   • Created a batch file with: robocopy C:\git\my-repo Q:\google\my-git-repo /mir /xd .git

   • I then changed my VS Code workspaces to go from old location to new location:

   • Old:

   {
      "folders": [
         {
               "path": "Q:\\google\\my-git-repo",
         }
      ],
      "settings": {}
   }
   

   • New:

   {
      "folders": [
         {
               "path": "C:\\git\\my-repo",
         }
      ],
      "settings": {}
   }
   

   • Or, lately I have moved all my Powershell repo’s to one workspace so it actually looks like:

      {
         "folders": [
            {
                  "path": "C:\\git\\my-repo",
            },
            {
                  "path": "C:\\git\\my-repo-2",
            },
            {
                  "path": "C:\\git\\my-repo-3",
            }
         ],
         "settings": {}
      }
   

2. After this, I just set that batch file to run daily at midnight so that my git repo’s are still backed up (although really not needed).