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git-remote-dropbox discussion
git-remote-dropbox reviews and mentions
- iCloud Drive silently deletes your content
For what it's worth, git also can fail in some pretty bizarre ways in Dropbox for much the same reasons. I've used git-remote-dropbox [1] in the past to use Dropbox as a git server.
[1] https://github.com/anishathalye/git-remote-dropbox
- What did I do to deserve this kind of torture
- GitHub is crying in the corner
- git-remote-dropbox: a transparent bridge between Git and Dropbox - use a Dropbox (shared) folder as a Git remote
- Dropbox, the new git.
If you want to use dropbox, then you should use the dropbox/git bridge, which lets git speak to dropbox somewhat directly, bypassing these problems.
- git-remote-dropbox: A transparent bridge between Git and Dropbox - use a Dropbox (shared) folder as a Git remote!
This is a high-level overview. No summary of API requests, but all the file I/O is in helper.py, so you can look there. At a high level, we rely on atomic (over)write and atomic test-and-set. Different primitives could work too, as long as there's some way to get concurrency control through the API.
- git-remote-dropbox
- Error when trying to use any non-internal function
- Computers as I used to love them
So, if you really want to use dropbox for syncing git repos, this plugin solves the problem well:
https://github.com/anishathalye/git-remote-dropbox
For me, it solved all of the corruption problems with using Dropbox for git storage. In the end, I decided it was too heavy weight, and wanted to be able to clone my repo on machines that might not have anything other than "git" installed, but until I reached that point, I was a happy user of it.
I'm not aware of a similar tool for syncthing.
- F*** VCS, all my homies use google docs.
Yeah there are tools that help in doing that. e.g, git-remote+dropbox
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anishathalye/git-remote-dropbox is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of git-remote-dropbox is Python.
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