The beauty of Git in Dropbox

Re:The beauty of Git in Dropbox by degorov on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @12:44PM (#5559193)

I do this for several years with lots of repos. Not a single problem ever.

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Re:The beauty of Git in Dropbox by degorov on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @12:48PM (#5559224)

And I use different OSes – Mac OS X, Windows 7 and XP, sometimes different git versions. And still no problems.

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Re:The beauty of Git in Dropbox by rsanders on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @02:33PM (#5559916)

So you never see conflict messages or conflicted files in your Dropbox? In the few cases I've tried a git working copy on Dropbox -- which is what I believe the author is discussing -- I've had conflicts.

For example:

    $ ls -1 .git/index*

    index
    index (blacktip.esquimaux.org's conflicted copy 2013-04-09)
    index (hammerhead's conflicted copy 2012-01-30)
    index (holodeck's conflicted copy 2012-01-26 (1))
    index (holodeck's conflicted copy 2012-01-26)
    index (holodeck's conflicted copy 2013-04-09)

It was only the index file and not anything irreplaceable (not that git does a lot of mutating of files in general). But it rapidly ended my experiment with git on Dropbox.

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Re:The beauty of Git in Dropbox by curiousbiped on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @07:11PM (#5561543)

I ran into this too. It was annoying enough that I ended up just using bitbucket.

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Re:The beauty of Git in Dropbox by legierski on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @05:05PM (#5560894)

I used to see conflicts all the time

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