Important thing to note — this may not be the best solution if your goal is to always have an up to date local (dropbox synced) version of a git repo. The docs

Important thing to note — this may not be the best solution if your goal is to always have an up to date local (dropbox synced) version of a git repo. The docs discourage that: > If you're using the Dropbox client to sync files, it's a good idea to use selective sync and disable syncing of the folder containing the repository to avoid any unexpected conflicts, just in case. Also, in case this wasn't obvious, this is basically a "shim" to use dropbox as a git server (as opposed to say mercurial or SVN). No actual git server is being run and if I understand correctly, some useful features from a normal git server are not implemented. > git-remote-dropbox is a Git remote helper. > git-remote-dropbox stores all objects as loose objects - it does not pack objects. This means that we do not perform delta compression. In addition, we do not perform garbage collection of dangling objects.