GitHub repo of Anki cards?

[chrislg]

I would like to keep a versioning system for changes of my notes and cards. Would git be a good option ?

[CravingCrates]

Yeah you can do that.
I think this Add-on is what you are looking for: GitHub - Stvad/CrowdAnki: Plugin for Anki SRS designed to facilitate cooperation on creation of notes and decks.

[chrislg]

Unfortunately it doesn’t work well with the latest Anki version.

Anki 23.12.1 (1a1d4d54) (src) (ao)
Python 3.9.15 Qt 6.6.1 PyQt 6.6.1
Platform: Linux-6.6.8-arch1-1-x86_64-with-glibc2.38

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/chris/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1788670778/dist/dulwich/file.py”, line 148, in init
fd = os.open(
FileExistsError: [Errno 17] File exists: ‘/home/chris/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1788670778/user_files/Chris/MyDeck__Medicine__a_YelloW_deck__The_ABSITE_Review__5th_edition__Chapter_15__Trauma/.git/objects/3c/9a31cef15582487e1dad1fde925062de89958a.lock’

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/chris/anki/ankidev/qt/aqt/progress.py”, line 118, in handler
func()
File “/home/chris/anki/ankidev/qt/aqt/main.py”, line 218, in on_window_init
fn()
File “/home/chris/anki/ankidev/qt/aqt/main.py”, line 317, in setupProfile
self.loadProfile()
File “/home/chris/anki/ankidev/qt/aqt/main.py”, line 496, in loadProfile
gui_hooks.profile_did_open()
File “/home/chris/anki/ankidev/out/qt/_aqt/hooks.py”, line 4107, in call
anki.hooks.runHook(“profileLoaded”)
File “/home/chris/anki/ankidev/pylib/anki/hooks.py”, line 34, in runHook
func(*args)
File “/home/chris/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1788670778/history/archiver_vendor.py”, line 42, in snapshot_on_sync
self.do_snapshot(‘CrowdAnki: Snapshot on sync’)
File “/home/chris/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1788670778/history/archiver_vendor.py”, line 50, in do_snapshot
self.all_deck_archiver().archive(overrides=self.overrides(),
File “/home/chris/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1788670778/history/archiver.py”, line 23, in archive
self.deck_archiver_supplier(deck).archive(reason=reason)
File “/home/chris/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1788670778/history/anki_deck_archiver.py”, line 22, in archive
repo.stage_all()
File “/home/chris/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1788670778/history/dulwich_repo.py”, line 32, in stage_all
self.dulwich_repo.stage(status.untracked + status.unstaged)
File “/home/chris/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1788670778/dist/dulwich/repo.py”, line 1374, in stage
self.object_store.add_object(blob)
File “/home/chris/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1788670778/dist/dulwich/object_store.py”, line 940, in add_object
with GitFile(path, “wb”, mask=PACK_MODE) as f:
File “/home/chris/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1788670778/dist/dulwich/file.py”, line 92, in GitFile
return _GitFile(filename, mode, bufsize, mask)
File “/home/chris/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1788670778/dist/dulwich/file.py”, line 154, in init
raise FileLocked(filename, self._lockfilename) from exc
dulwich.file.FileLocked: (‘/home/chris/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1788670778/user_files/Chris/MyDeck__Medicine__a_YelloW_deck__The_ABSITE_Review__5th_edition__Chapter_15__Trauma/.git/objects/3c/9a31cef15582487e1dad1fde925062de89958a’, ‘/home/chris/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/1788670778/user_files/Chris/MyDeck__Medicine__a_YelloW_deck__The_ABSITE_Review__5th_edition__Chapter_15__Trauma/.git/objects/3c/9a31cef15582487e1dad1fde925062de89958a.lock’)

===Add-ons (active)===
(add-on provided name [Add-on folder, installed at, version, is config changed])
Button Colours Good Again [‘2494384865’, 2022-09-27T12:18, ‘None’, ‘’]
CrowdAnki JSON exportimport Edit history Collaborate on deck creation [‘1788670778’, 2023-10-30T19:57, ‘None’, mod]
Edit Field During Review Cloze [‘385888438’, 2023-11-01T05:53, ‘6.17’, mod]
FSRS4Anki Helper [‘759844606’, 2023-12-27T08:23, ‘None’, mod]
Hint Hotkeys [‘1844908621’, 2023-04-14T16:13, ‘None’, ‘’]
Review Heatmap [‘1771074083’, 2022-06-30T03:43, ‘None’, ‘’]

===IDs of active AnkiWeb add-ons===
1771074083 1788670778 1844908621 2494384865 385888438 759844606

===Add-ons (inactive)===
(add-on provided name [Add-on folder, installed at, version, is config changed])
AnkiHub [‘1322529746’, 2023-12-27T21:22, ‘None’, ‘’]

[chrislg]

I also thought of creating a script that dumps the Anki’s collection database and then use git version control