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by bradleyland 4886 days ago
I don't get it either. I've seen entire blog posts dedicated to using Dropbox as a git remote [1]. This is insanity! Git expects very fine grained control over the files in a git repository. I've also seen Dropbox generate "conflicted copies" for files that I don't have open and haven't modified. Literally I've sat and watched Dropbox notices come in about conflicted copies on files that are years old. I opened the folder containing the files and stared as the folder filled up with conflicted copies (which I promptly deleted).

There's no way I'd trust Dropbox to touch my git repos.

1: http://intermediaware.com/blog/how-to-use-dropbox-as-a-git-r...