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Re:The beauty of Git in Dropbox by maxhowell on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @12:15PM (#5558984)
I have for about a year now done all my work out of Dropbox (via a symlink from ~/src) it works great for multiple machines and has added advantages, eg. I never worry about deleting files that aren't staged anymore, as I can undo the delete from Dropbox’s website.

Git is for long-term version control, working out of Dropbox is like having a script running that stashes and unstashes every change you make so that its in the git-reflog.

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Re:The beauty of Git in Dropbox by theonewolf on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @12:28PM (#5559084)
I also do this, it's a great workflow I think.

There are occasionally conflicts, but I've never actually gotten a corrupted repository. All I ever do is go with the latest version of things using 'find' to delete the conflicts.

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