You wait for the little icon in the system tray to stop spinning, and you can look in the window at the sync log if you don't trust it. It would take about 10 s

You wait for the little icon in the system tray to stop spinning, and you can look in the window at the sync log if you don't trust it. It would take about 10 seconds. My whole original point to this thread was that the dropbox client can handle tens of thousands of little file changes without breaking a sweat. You could replace text in the entire codebase with one command and it will swallow it all no problem. Yes it is eventually consistent, and yes dont touch the code on any other devices until it's done, but even if you are somehow refactoring your entire codebase every day, the change will be made manifest, and quickly. I don't know if you've ever peeked under the hood of a git repo, but it creates literally thousands upon thousands of tiny little files. Far more than whatever the repo is actually storing. For my uses, where I would run over to a machine and maybe tweak a line or two of code on the laptop and re-run it then return to my desk, there were literally never any problems if I didn't jump the gun (and it was easy to resolve if I did).