NotesHub: changes inside a subfolder create empty Git commits

[techsemhype]

Hi Alex,

First of all, thank you for NotesHub. I've been using it for years and I really like the app, especially the Git-based approach and the fact that it works across iOS and Android.

I think I finally reproduced an old sync issue I had forgotten about.

My Git repository root is intentionally one level above my notes folder:

repo/
├── md/
│   └── notes.md
├── sh/
└── multiversox/

I connect this repository to NotesHub on iOS and can browse and open md/notes.md normally.

Reading/syncing from GitHub works perfectly.

The problem happens when editing md/notes.md in NotesHub:

1. Edit md/notes.md on iOS.
2. Save the note.
3. Force NotesHub sync.
4. NotesHub successfully creates and pushes a new commit to GitHub.
5. On the Mac, git pull receives that commit normally.
6. However, the commit contains no file changes and md/notes.md remains unchanged.

For example:

4b5aec8 create/update 'notes.md' file

but:

git show --name-status 4b5aec8

shows no modified file at all.

I reproduced it multiple times. Authentication, fetch, push and fast-forward all work correctly; only the actual note modification is missing from the commit.

My suspicion is that NotesHub is treating notes.md as being at the notebook/repository root instead of preserving its real Git path md/notes.md.

Would it be possible to support this repository layout, where Markdown notes live inside a subfolder of a larger Git repository?

I can provide additional logs or run a minimal reproduction repo if that helps.

Small additional finding that may help reproduce the issue:

I also tested the opposite direction: Mac → GitHub → NotesHub.

I edited md/notes.md on the Mac, committed/pushed it normally, and verified that origin/main contains the new text.

On the existing NotesHub notebook:

• iOS showed: An unhandled error occurred, please try again
• Android did not receive the remote change
• GitHub authentication itself remained active

Then I removed the notebook from NotesHub and added the exact same repository again (techsemhype/mac).

After re-adding it, the new text from md/notes.md appeared correctly on iOS.

So this does not seem to be an authentication problem. It looks more like the existing local notebook/clone state becomes inconsistent after external Git commits, and recreating the notebook forces a clean clone that works again.

This may be related to the subfolder/path issue described above.

Thanks!