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Re:Dropbox will kill your insane MacBook Air 2013 battery by stinos on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @06:12AM (#5983495)
same question here. If you can get free private git repositories on services like bitbucket, it's sort of a mystery to me why one would want to lose true versioning and go with plain backup instead.
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Re:Dropbox will kill your insane MacBook Air 2013 battery by snom380 on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @06:27AM (#5983549)
You can have both. If you put your working directory in Dropbox you will have a copy of your uncommitted work as well.

Also, in many cases it is easier for a graphic designer or just a customer to put stuff in a Dropbox folder that will sync to their website, than uploading stuff using a web form or learning to use git and X amount of deployment tools.

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Re:Dropbox will kill your insane MacBook Air 2013 battery by rickyc091 on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @06:35AM (#5983576)
I'm part of the camp that uses both Dropbox / Git for my development work. I've actually had Dropbox save me a few times due to nasty rebases. For a lot of one off scripts, I don't really commit them into git so that's where it comes in handy. The extra redundancy doesn't hurt...
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Re:Dropbox will kill your insane MacBook Air 2013 battery by duncan_bayne on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @07:21AM (#5983760)
> The extra redundancy doesn't hurt...

... unless you're running on batteries.

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