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I'm using org-capture to take project-specific notes by having a notes file in each of several git repositories. Looking forward, however, I can see danger here: if I'm working on project (1) and I think to drop a note in project (2), I'll probably forget to commit it; doing this on multiple computers and syncing via github just begs for merge conflicts.

Does anyone know a way to solve at least part of this problem by having org-capture automatically pull from remote before it starts a note? I thought of trying to just use advice to do it, but there's no obvious way to do that given that the specific repository isn't selected until after org-capture is run...

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    The target in the capture template can be a function called with no argument. Make that function do the pull as a side-effect?
    – Fran Burstall
    Commented Jan 16, 2021 at 10:37
  • Oooh that's a potential idea. Thank you. I didn't know you could call a function in the capture template.
    – Paul Gowder
    Commented Jan 16, 2021 at 15:38
  • C-h v org-capture-templates is helpful here.
    – Fran Burstall
    Commented Jan 16, 2021 at 16:43

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You can always use defadvice. This is kind of hook that can get triggered in many situation.

(defadvice  next-line (before nextline-before activate)
  (message "Are you using next line?"))

For more https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AdvisingFunctions

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