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A transparent bridge between Git and Dropbox - use a Dropbox (shared) folder as a Git remote! 🎁

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iCloud Drive silently deletes your content | Sep 2023
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For what it's worth, git also can fail in some pretty bizarre ways in Dropbox for much the same reasons. I've used git-remote-dropbox [1] in the past to use Dropbox as a git server.

[1] https://github.com/anishathalye/git-remote-dropbox
Show HN: Hubfs – File System for GitHub | Mar 2022
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Isn't there already a good way to push computation closer to the data?

GmailFS and pyfilesystem (userspace FUSE) and rclone are neat as well.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1960799/how-to-use-git-a... explains about the `git push` step that git-remote-dropbox enables: https://github.com/anishathalye/git-remote-dropbox
Computers as I used to love them | Jan 2022
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So, if you really want to use dropbox for syncing git repos, this plugin solves the problem well:

https://github.com/anishathalye/git-remote-dropbox

For me, it solved all of the corruption problems with using Dropbox for git storage. In the end, I decided it was too heavy weight, and wanted to be able to clone my repo on machines that might not have anything other than "git" installed, but until I reached that point, I was a happy user of it.

I'm not aware of a similar tool for syncthing.
Joplin – an open source note taking and to-do application with sync | Feb 2020
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https://github.com/anishathalye/git-remote-dropbox
GitHub Alternatives | Jun 2018
I've never used Github for personal, closed-source projects, but if you have and want to switch to something that provides absolutely no features except git hosting, here are 3 I've used:

- Keybase git: https://keybase.io/blog/encrypted-git-for-everyone (my preferred solution these days).

- AWS CodeCommit: https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit/ ("encrypted", but I don't know if AWS employees can access it).

- Dropbox git remote: https://github.com/anishathalye/git-remote-dropbox (it's slow and unencrypted, but uses Dropbox).

Ask HN: Dropbox like site that respects .gitignore? | Oct 2017
Check if https://github.com/anishathalye/git-remote-dropbox fits your workflow.
Keybase launches encrypted Git | Oct 2017
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For those reading, you should under no circumstances use Dropbox as git hosting unless you're using git-remote-dropbox:

https://github.com/anishathalye/git-remote-dropbox

Hosing your repo is way too easy otherwise.
Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs | Jan 2017
I've been using Dropbox as a real handy remote git host using the fantastic git-remote-dropbox utility. It's really great to create a remote repo right from the command line and immediately push to it without the hassle of going to a site like GH or BB and setting up the repo first and all that jazz. Make DB worth the money I spend (and unlimited private repos, of course, and with easy sharing by many developers with Dropbox's shared folders).

https://github.com/anishathalye/git-remote-dropbox