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Re:How Dropbox Knows When You’re Sharing Copyrighted Stuff W... by aroch on Sunday March 30, 2014 @06:57PM (#7498354)
Clearskies is the one to keep an eye on.

https://github.com/jewel/clearskies

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Re:How Dropbox Knows When You’re Sharing Copyrighted Stuff W... by pedrocr on Sunday March 30, 2014 @07:18PM (#7498406)
Syncthing seems farther along. Been planning to test both out:

https://github.com/calmh/syncthing

git-annex with the assistant was supposed to be a dropbox replacement too but I haven't had much luck with it.

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Re:How Dropbox Knows When You’re Sharing Copyrighted Stuff W... by aroch on Monday March 31, 2014 @08:58AM (#7501104)
I don't use git-annex because it doesn't work on homefolders under OSX, making it sort of useless
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Re:How Dropbox Knows When You’re Sharing Copyrighted Stuff W... by pedrocr on Monday March 31, 2014 @09:28AM (#7501272)
It has a bunch of limitations. It doesn't support hardlinks, it doesn't track folders so empty folders don't show up/disappear, it doesn't sync file permissions, etc.

The developer is awesome but he seems to be going at this from "how can I make git more userfriendly" instead of "how can I implement a dropbox that just happens to use git". clearskies/btsync/syncthing won't inherit all the great git stuff (great versioning mostly) but they seem to be more on track to give a good user experience.

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