[dfc]

Your second paragraph reads like a defense of CVS. git-annex handles this fine for me on my network at home with multiple machines and multiple copies of the repository/archive/drop-box-folder on each machine.

[lucian1900]

With any VCS, commits are explicit. Dropbox and the like need implicit sync.

[dfc]

Are you familiar with git-annex and its helpful assistant?

[lucian1900]

While it looks cool, it seems to me that it isn't entirely automatic. Sadly the vast majority of people will not go for anything less automatic than Dropbox.

[dfc]

"any changes you make to its folder will automatically be committed to git, and synced to repositories on other computers." [1]

I guess its not automatic in the sense that it does not install itself, but then again neither does dropbox...

[1] http://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/