4 ms·

From the users perspective git is an application which you use to actively maintain a repo. Whereas Dropbox is more or less just a magic folder. Entirely differ

From the users perspective git is an application which you use to actively maintain a repo. Whereas Dropbox is more or less just a magic folder. Entirely different levels of convenience.

0_gravitas 7y ago
I definitely understand why "normal" users wouldn't use an online repo (especially if they've never used git itself), but I can't really buy `git add ., git commit -m "sync", git push -u` being too inconvenient, especially when you can just alias all of those. Now if mobile phones are the main reason I can definately understand a bit more, but I do my best to minimize my usage of it anyway, it's mainly a messenger + hn device.
- jpindar 7y ago
  I use github - for code. But dumping 100 Gigs of movies, music, books, and other random personal stuff there is not its intended use.
  - 0_gravitas 7y ago
    Movies and music I get, but I have all my schoolwork and related stuff, like all my org-mode files, in there, not just code, it 100% beats emailing myself some work I did on my desktop just so I can print it out on a school computer/work on it using a laptop.
- tsegers 7y ago
  That's still one action more than is required for using a synchronization service. The killer feature is not having to do anything at all. I save my file on one computer, and it's available on all my other machines, my phone and anything with a web browser without a conscious thought at all.
  - 0_gravitas 7y ago
    I wonder how hard it would be to make a folder that automatically pushes itself to a git repo whenever it detects a change in its contents, I've actually been thinking about that for a bit now. The optimist in me thinks it can't be too hard, could be a nice project to do someday.
    - jcranberry 7y ago
      You could do it easily with a service which just indexes the files and periodically looks at most recently modified timestamps and then pushes if any of them are later than the most recent sync.

From the users perspective git is an application which you use to actively maintain a repo. Whereas Dropbox is more or less just a magic folder. Entirely different levels of convenience.

0_gravitas 7y ago

I definitely understand why "normal" users wouldn't use an online repo (especially if they've never used git itself), but I can't really buy `git add ., git commit -m "sync", git push -u` being too inconvenient, especially when you can just alias all of those. Now if mobile phones are the main reason I can definately understand a bit more, but I do my best to minimize my usage of it anyway, it's mainly a messenger + hn device.

jpindar 7y ago
I use github - for code. But dumping 100 Gigs of movies, music, books, and other random personal stuff there is not its intended use.
- 0_gravitas 7y ago
  Movies and music I get, but I have all my schoolwork and related stuff, like all my org-mode files, in there, not just code, it 100% beats emailing myself some work I did on my desktop just so I can print it out on a school computer/work on it using a laptop.
tsegers 7y ago
That's still one action more than is required for using a synchronization service. The killer feature is not having to do anything at all. I save my file on one computer, and it's available on all my other machines, my phone and anything with a web browser without a conscious thought at all.
- 0_gravitas 7y ago
  I wonder how hard it would be to make a folder that automatically pushes itself to a git repo whenever it detects a change in its contents, I've actually been thinking about that for a bit now. The optimist in me thinks it can't be too hard, could be a nice project to do someday.
  - jcranberry 7y ago
    You could do it easily with a service which just indexes the files and periodically looks at most recently modified timestamps and then pushes if any of them are later than the most recent sync.