[PeterisP]

They are very useful, but for different kinds of data.

I keep my source in git, so I get proper versioning, commits, etc.

I keep all my stuff - data files, notes, documentation, agreements, tool installations, ebooks, tools/code made by others in dropbox, so they are the same everywhere.

But the git folders are outside of dropbox. The version control takes care of syncing the code, but there are all kinds of .gitignored files such as IDE path configuration and compiled binaries that differ (and must differ) between my computers. Heck, even most of the code files are different, because their line endings are converted to win or unix style.

[taproot]

Curious, why would you use different line endings? What IDE doesn't have that setting in its config?