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Ask HN: Do you put your Git repositories in Dropbox?

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I like that I have a backup of things I'm not ready to commit yet and also being able to switch between desktop / laptop and continuing where I left off.

However, lately I've seen some weird Dropbox conflicts with Git's index.

Is storing your repos in Dropbox a good or bad idea?

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What kind of weird conflicts? My GitRepos are in my My Documents folder and that folder is backed up to Dropbox. But I haven't synced the git folder to my laptop yet.

In the .git folder, I have multiple of these files:

    FETCH_HEAD
    FETCH_HEAD (mba's conflicted copy 2012-05-30 (1))
    FETCH_HEAD (mba's conflicted copy 2012-05-30 (2))
    FETCH_HEAD (mba's conflicted copy 2012-05-30 (3))
    FETCH_HEAD (mba's conflicted copy 2012-05-30 (4))
    index
    index (mba's conflicted copy 2012-05-30 (1))
    index (mba's conflicted copy 2012-05-30 (2))
    index (osyMac's conflicted copy 2012-05-30 (2))
    index (osyMac's conflicted copy 2012-05-30 (3))
    index (osyMac's conflicted copy 2012-05-30 (4))

Yeah, I was running into that as well. I have quite a few machines hooked up to it so it becomes a real pain.

I just started using a private github repo.

I tend to store all my repositories in Dropbox, but not in shared folders. That way, my work is synced to all devices and I avoid weird file conflicts.

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