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0 pointsspacemanaki12y ago0 comments

Props to you for actually testing simultaneous pushes where conflicts arise at the Dropbox-level, but I would still never do this (for a multiuser repo, for a single user it's probably fine).

Maybe I'm overly risk-averse, but I've been bitten a few times by Git setups that are non-standard or complicated and decided that it's far better to keep things as simple as possible. I'm not really interested in fiddling about keeping Git running smoothly, when it's incidental to the real work. It's just not worth it to save a few bucks, versus hosting a Git repo yourself on a VPS or something.

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tlarkworthy12y ago

I run a gitolite server and git-on-dropbox setup both multi user. I find the maintenance of ssh keys a pain. I collaberate with 4 universities outside my country, and people upgrade their computers and lose their keys all the time. If its a smallish, ad hoc, non-security concious project, I go Dropbox by default now. Its not bitten me yet (1 year, maybe 10 projects)

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0 pointsspacemanaki12y ago0 comments

Props to you for actually testing simultaneous pushes where conflicts arise at the Dropbox-level, but I would still never do this (for a multiuser repo, for a single user it's probably fine).

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tlarkworthy12y ago

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