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Dropbox does have version control built in, albeit not in the same way which you speak of. Pretty good way to get people unfamiliar with version control to see
by rbxbx 16y ago
Dropbox does have version control built in, albeit not in the same way which you speak of.
Pretty good way to get people unfamiliar with version control to see the utility of it, though :)
- ErrantX 16y agoActually no; Dropbox and version control are different ends of the same problem spectrum. Using Dropbox for version control is non-optimal, and Dropbox VC is more backend/invisible to it's use case. Dropbox is about syncing, as fast as possible and in real time - it is designed for multiple computers but only one concurrent use. So it is really for the individual. Versioning is a form of snap shot that is designed to allow multiple concurrent work (and has benefits for deployment, releases, bug tracking etc.) The vision should be to see them working together IMO :)
- nrub 16y agoDropbox definitely has version control, you are able to move back and forth between different versions of a single saved document, that's definition enough. It's just not meant for fine grained control like Mercurial or other DVCS. CouchDB has version control, would you ever use that?