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I am a bit confused.

This only represents server side right?

You are still not expected to leave the working directory in the Dropbox folder?

Reason i ask - Dropbox's client is very inefficient when it comes to small files.

As anishathalye said you probably don't want to keep your git working directory on Dropbox. If you want to share a git working directory between machines, you can use a shared filesystem such as our ObjectiveFS (https://objectivefs.com). Note that if you use git with an OSXFUSE filesystem you currently need to add the "--quiet" option to work around an issue with signals (https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/issues/213).

This is a remote helper meant to interact with a git repo hosted on Dropbox - it runs entirely on the client side - there's no special git-specific code that the Dropbox servers run.

Correct, you're not expected to leave the working directory in a Dropbox folder. In fact, that's a bad idea (for the reasons explained in the blog post / readme).

It's also recommended to selective sync out the repository directory so the desktop client doesn't touch the files at all.

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