Re: Syncing a git working tree with Dropbox?

From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 14, 2010, 05:39 UTC
Message-ID: <be6fef0d1001132139p56944cdax22674ca773af0199@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100113235718.GA7033@dulip>

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:57 AM, chombee <chombee@lavabit.com> wrote:

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> 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.

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Cheers,
Ray Chuan