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Create a brare git repository in dropbox that can be used as a remote
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It is possible to use Dropbox as a "remote" repository. It is not perfect, updating or pushing to the remote from two location simultaniously will surely corrupt the repository. That being said it is a practical trick for syncing repositories between computers without both having write access to "origin" (i.e. github, gitlab or the like).

I store the repositories in a directory "git" in my dropbox folder. Create it if it does not yet exist, or make up you own name: mkdir ~/Dropbox/git/

  1. Change to the repository for which you want to create a remote

cd /path/of/your/repository

  1. Initialise the git repository in the Dropbox shared folder

git init --bare ~/Dropbox/git/repository-name.git

  1. Add the new repository as a remote

git remote add Dropbox ~/Dropbox/git/repository-name.git

  1. Push all branches to the new remote

git push Dropbox --all

Now on another computer wait until Dropbox has finished syncing, then add Dropbox as a remote again (see step 3). You can then fetch and pull from Dropbox and push to origin. Yay!

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