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0 pointsdamncabbage14y ago0 comments

Please don't ever do this, unless you wish to invite Dropbox's file syncing to destroy your repo.

(See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1964347/mercurial-and-i-g... and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1960799/using-gitdropbox-... )

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eliben14y ago

The top-rated answer there warmly recommends using Git on top of DB.

damncabbageOP14y ago

Yes. I'm sure it works for the common case. It's the edge-case problems outlined in the answers below it that worry me more.

Going out on a limb: I'd assume that if you care enough about your data to version it in a git repo, then I'd also assume that you'd not enjoy it exploding because of a sync problem between two computers.

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eliben14y ago

The top-rated answer there warmly recommends using Git on top of DB.

damncabbageOP14y ago

Yes. I'm sure it works for the common case. It's the edge-case problems outlined in the answers below it that worry me more.

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