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by bdcravens 2076 days ago
Probably the same reasons you may prefer Google Drive over Microsoft Office.

That said, I would definitely prefer pointing Glow to any standard git repo. This gives it all the security Charm is claiming to offer, versioning, etc, essentially for free. (Obviously that defeats the purpose of Glow being a marketing tool for Charm)

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For what it's worth, you don't need to use the Charm Cloud features. If you run `glow` in a directory, it will recursively search subdirectories for markdown files and display them for viewing in the TUI. Stashing will encrypt them then push them to the Charm Cloud though.
This is by no means a feature request but it could be useful if Glow provided a way to configure alternative stashing methods (i.e. "stash via Charm or stash via some shell script you give me"). There would still be a lot of pull towards Charm but users who wanna do it themselves can also use the stash feature.