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The fundamental issue is that Dropbox changes are non-atomic w.r.t. what git considers "atoms." See my other comment in this thread. You're right that there's u
by dreamcompiler 4y ago
The fundamental issue is that Dropbox changes are non-atomic w.r.t. what git considers "atoms." See my other comment in this thread. You're right that there's usually not a problem with a single contributor, but if you ever have two or more contributors sharing a Dropbox-contained repo it will be bad news.
- Dylan16807 4y agoSure, don't share. But there's a good use case for putting a single-user checkout into Dropbox, and that's because it adds convenience and gives you continuous backups. Though outside of garbage collecting, git doesn't have many files that actually get changed. Mainly the ref pointers which are easy to resolve and the logs which aren't very important.