On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> That's always been my assumption, but _somehow_ it avoids conflicting (if > it sees a conflict, it creates two copies and lets the user sort it out, > but i haven't seen that happen in about 4 years). My current hypothesis is > that either the filesystem > Some background, potentially useful for David: Back when i started using dropbox (very early on in their history), i did indeed use it to host some of my proto-repos which hadn't earned a spot on my web hoster. i would occasionally forget to enable dropbox on one machine or the other, and dropbox would create a "conflict copy", but that was user error and never led to corruption. i was always a bit nervous about hosting repos there because: a) trust issues related to locking (same thing Richard's talking about). (That said, i have never been bitten in this regard in Dropbox.) b) because Dropbox starts synching the sqlite temp files and whatnot unless i pause syncing (which i then forget to re-enable, leading to conflict copies). There's nothing fundamentally wrong with dropbox synching those (as long as they don't conflict, and i never observed that happening), but it's "the principle of the thing," in the same way that it annoys me to no end when people double-click hyperlinks (causing the the web server just got two requests for the same thing, one of which must be discarded (which just bugs me)). So i stopped using Dropbox for repo hosting (still use it for static repo backups), but it wasn't due to real/observed problems, only out of concerns over _potential_ problems. i.e. removing variables for the sake of repo stability. -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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