[glanotte]

I am not sure I understand. I use dropbox with git, but I use the dropbox folder as my origin repository. I initialize a bare repository in my dropbox folder and then push to it from my local working repository. The only time dropbox updates is when I push. I also don't want all of my temporary files replicated anyway and git provides me the ability to control what is and is not in the repository. I hadn't thought to use dropbox as my working directory, but I can imagine that it would be a painful experience.

This is usually only a temporary measure for throw away projects that have potential. When something gets to the point that I am going to deploy it, then I will change the origin to github and push there.