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There was a point where Dropbox was our very own SVN =)
by jmtame 18y ago
There was a point where Dropbox was our very own SVN =)
- miloshh 18y agoYes, it's great for that purpose, except when two ore more people edit too vigorously at the same time. E.g. a file is updated by your friend, while you're working the same file open in an editor. When you save, you overwrite his changes. If you have a solution to this problem, let us know... :)
- ams6110 18y agoMy immediate reaction, having never heard of Dropbox, was "why not just use SVN".
- smokinn 18y agoSVN is for version control of files. Dropbox is simply for sharing/syncing files where you don't need a full history. I use it on my laptop/home/work computers. If I have a file I need on another computer rather than vpn into work and send it over or ftp into a server and drop it there to pick it up later I just throw it in the dropbox and it syncs to all computers. It's nice. EDIT: Forgot to mention that dropbox does keep a version history of your files. I just don't use that particular feature.
- mustpax 18y agoWhat I love about Dropbox is that you don't have to check in/check out every time you make the slightest change. The versioning is implicit, which is the way it should be for most personal files (although it would be a disaster for SCM). I've been using Dropbox to sync shell configuration files across several (4+) machines and it's a dream come true. I now have versioned bashrc files, my vim plugins, on every machine.
- mikeyur 18y agoI'm currently using Dropbox to sync my todo list (ActionGear on Mac) with my other Macs, as well as my Adium preferences and chat history. So useful.
- fizx 18y agoYou could get basically the same service, but uglier and slower, via webdav_svn and Trac. I did that for a while back in ~2005, but man was it slow. Maybe today, you could use Git with a cronjob that autocommits, pulls and pushes every minute or on mtime changes.