Re: [git-users] dropbox & git

2012-07-30 Thread Serge Matveenko
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > (Just to be clear in case I've used the wrong terminology: My src/ folder is > in my Dropbox folder thus shared across all my systems. I wish to use > github as my remote repository. Being noob, I hope this has been clear! > So...) > > OK,

Re: [git-users] dropbox & git

2012-07-30 Thread Owen Densmore
(Just to be clear in case I've used the wrong terminology: My src/ folder is in my Dropbox folder thus shared across all my systems. I wish to use github as my remote repository. Being noob, I hope this has been clear! So...) OK, looks like src/ in Dropbox, used with Git/GitHub is a bad idea.

Re: [git-users] dropbox & git

2012-07-30 Thread Serge Matveenko
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: > 1. It also assumes the filesystem implements working locking (in the >sense locking actually works, not just appropriate syscalls complete >successfully). But this is only an issue when there are several >people accessing

Re: [git-users] dropbox & git

2012-07-30 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 22:18:24 -0700 (PDT) Owen Densmore wrote: > I'm setting up a github repo and would prefer my local git file > system to be in my dropbox file system. > > Is there any reason this would be a bad idea? The chief reason this is a bad idea is that while Git uses standard OS sysca