On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 07:07:47PM -0700, Ray Joseph wrote: > Our team is using Dropbox and we want to change to Git. I have seen many > articles on how to use them together, but not how to transition. Is it > possible to capture the Dropbox versioning over to a new Git repo?
DropBox has a "web API" available which can be used to retreive the list of revisions for a particular file, and obtain each of these revisions. So you could code up a tool which, given an URL of a project's root folder on your DropBox account, would list the folder's contents then walk the revisions of each file, and download them. The simplest way to shovel them to a Git repo is, IMO, appending them to a file formatted to the expectations of the `git fast-import` command [1]. I'm not well-versed in DropBox semantics so I don't know whether DropBox supports atomic updates of several files at once or each update operation always happens on a single file (and so the commits you'll be synthesizing for a Git repo will also be single-files). You'd also need to track renames (in Git, a rename is deletion of a file from its old location and addition of it at a new one -- that is, no special "rename" operation is supported). I'm pretty sure there should exist ready-made libraries for popular scripting languages to make use of DropBox API. 1. https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-fast-import.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
