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From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
To: chombee <chombee@lavabit.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Syncing a git working tree with Dropbox?
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:39:10 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <be6fef0d1001132139p56944cdax22674ca773af0199@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100113235718.GA7033@dulip>

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:57 AM, chombee <chombee@lavabit.com> wrote:
> My idea is that I keep my .git folder safely outside of my Dropbox
> folder, but my git repository has a detached working tree that is
> located in the Dropbox folder. On machine B it would be the same setup.
> So the two machines each have their own clone of the git repo and these
> are synchronised by git push and git pull with a 'central' remote repo.
> But the two clones share the same working tree, or more accurately their
> working trees are synced by Dropbox.
>
> The working tree is just files, I don't see how it's different from
> Dropbox syncing any other files. Dropbox and git ought not to collide in
> any way. So this should work fine shouldn't it?

Your changes in git (like new commits) won't be synced.

-- 
Cheers,
Ray Chuan

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-14  5:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-13 23:57 Syncing a git working tree with Dropbox? chombee
2010-01-14  5:39 ` Tay Ray Chuan [this message]
2010-01-14 13:19   ` Geoffrey Lee
2010-01-14 13:40     ` chombee

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