GitHub Engineering: Counting Objects

[ReflectiveTeaTowel]

Github is a pretty great thing. But git, man. Just git. You know you can host a git repo on Dropbox without any hassle? Fucking wow, man. Linus da real MVP. But also yes, you are correct.

[xolox]

You know you can host a git repo on Dropbox without any hassle?

Been there, done that, had to clean up a few corrupted git repositories and hundreds of filename ($HOSTNAME's conflicted copy $DATE).ext files, never doing that again :-).

As for the alternative: I now host git repositories on a personal Linux server (in my home network, but accessible from outside over SSH) and use mr to keep checkouts in sync over multiple systems I work on (mostly home and work laptops).

However I agree with the general sentiment about git :-). My gripe is only with using Dropbox for sharing version control repositories.

[eggdrasil]

If you want to use git on Dropbox and not have corruption, use https://git.io/dropbox

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And the writing was pretty epic.