[modoc]

Why would you put your git repo in DropBox? That seems counter-intuitive to me. I specifically keep anything in a VCS out of DropBox since then you're versioning stuff twice....

I have just under 150,000 files in DropBox and haven't noticed any performance issues. DropBox rarely shows up in Activity Monitor's first 20 CPU users (unlike MediaFire which is usually burning CPU for no reason and only managing 200 files).

Perhaps it's an OS difference? I am on OS X 10.11.1.

[benologist]

Dropbox = real time, automatic, versioned backup of all files in your entire project, making you and your work safe from deleting files, accidentally overwriting files etc, all the time.

Git = not that.

[RightWingRabble]

Have you ever tried AeroFS?

[pdeuchler]

I store my whole workspace on Dropbox (minus some sensitive projects which are in my tarsnap-workspace). Every single one of my projects starts out with

>> mkdir projectname && cd projectname && git init

but not all of those projects end up on github/online repos.

Regardless, git is not backup, and dropbox isn't (real) versioning.