现在是2014年，我已经使用Git和Dropbox大约一年半了，没有任何问题。 以下是几点:

我所有使用Dropbox的电脑都是Windows操作系统，不同版本(7到8)+ 1个mac。 我不与其他人共享存储库，所以我是唯一一个修改它的人。 git push推送到一个远程存储库，这样如果它损坏了，我可以很容易地恢复它。 我必须在C:\Users中使用mklink /D链接目标创建别名，因为一些库指向绝对位置。

我不想把我所有的项目都放在一个Git存储库下，也不想为每个项目运行这些代码，所以我编写了一个Bash脚本来自动化这个过程。你可以在一个或多个目录上使用它——所以它可以为你完成这篇文章中的代码，也可以一次在多个项目上完成。

#!/bin/sh
# Script by Eli Delventhal
# Creates Git projects for file folders by making the origin Dropbox. You will need to install Dropbox for this to work.

# Not enough parameters, show help.
if [ $# -lt 1 ] ; then

cat<<HELP
projects_to_git.sh -- Takes a project folder and creates a Git repository for it on Dropbox

USAGE:
    ./projects_to_git.sh file1 file2 ..

EXAMPLES:
    ./projects_to_git.sh path/to/MyProjectDir
        Creates a git project called MyProjectDir on Dropbox

    ./projects_to_git.sh path/to/workspace/*
        Creates a git project on Dropbox for every folder contained within the workspace directory, where the project name matches the folder name

HELP
    exit 0
fi

# We have enough parameters, so let's actually do this thing.

START_DIR=$(pwd)

# Make sure we have a connection to Dropbox
cd ~
if [ -s 'Dropbox' ] ; then
    echo "Found Dropbox directory."
    cd Dropbox
    if [ -s 'git' ] ; then
        echo "    Dropbox Git directory found."
    else
        echo "    Dropbox Git directory created."
        mkdir git
    fi
else
    echo "You do not have a Dropbox folder at ~/Dropbox! Install Dropbox. Aborting..."
    exit 0
fi

# Process all directories matching the passed parameters.
echo "Starting processing for all files..."
for PROJ in $*
do
    if [ -d $PROJ ] ; then
        PROJNAME=$(basename $PROJ)
        echo "  Processing $PROJNAME..."

        # Enable Git with this project.
        cd $PROJ
        if [ -s '.git' ] ; then
            echo "    $PROJNAME is already a Git repository, ignoring..."
        else
            echo "    Initializing Git for $PROJNAME..."
            git init -q
            git add .
            git commit -m "Initial creation of project." -q

            # Make the origin Dropbox.

            cd ~/Dropbox/git
            if [ -s $PROJNAME ] ; then
                echo "    Warning! $PROJNAME already exists in Git! Ignoring..."
            else
                echo "    Putting $PROJNAME project on Dropbox..."
                mkdir $PROJNAME
                cd $PROJNAME
                git init -q --bare
            fi

            # Link the project to the origin
            echo "    Copying local $PROJNAME to Dropbox..."
            cd $PROJ
            git remote add origin "~/Dropbox/git/$PROJNAME"
            git push -q origin master
            git branch --set-upstream master origin/master
        fi
    fi
done

echo "Done processing all files."
cd $START_DIR

正确的方法是使用git-remote-dropbox: https://github.com/anishathalye/git-remote-dropbox

在Dropbox中创建自己的裸回购会导致很多问题。Anish(库的创造者)解释得很好:

The root cause of these problems is that the Dropbox desktop client is designed for syncing files, not Git repositories. Without special handling for Git repositories, it doesn’t maintain the same guarantees as Git. Operations on the remote repository are no longer atomic, and concurrent operations or unlucky timing with synchronization can result in a corrupted repository. Traditional Git remotes run code on the server side to make this work properly, but we can’t do that. Solution: It is possible to solve this properly. It is possible to use Git with Dropbox and have the same safety and consistency guarantees as a traditional Git remote, even when there are multiple users and concurrent operations! For a user, it’s as simple as using git-remote-dropbox, a Git remote helper that acts as a transparent bidirectional bridge between Git and Dropbox and maintains all the guarantees of a traditional Git remote. It’s even safe to use with shared folders, so it can be used for collaboration (yay unlimited private repos with unlimited collaborators!). With the remote helper, it’s possible to use Dropbox as a Git remote and continue using all the regular Git commands like git clone, git pull, and git push, and everything will just work as expected.

还有一个开源项目(一个跨平台[Linux, Mac, Win]脚本的集合)，它用少量(3-4)命令完成存储库管理的所有细节。

https://github.com/karalabe/gitbox/wiki

示例用法如下:

$ gitbox create myapp
Creating empty repository...
Initializing new repository...
Repository successfully created.

$ gitbox clone myapp
Cloning repository...
Repository successfully cloned.

之后正常的git使用:

$ echo “Some change” > somefile.txt
$ git add somefile.txt
$ git commit –m “Created some file”
$ git push

查看项目wiki和手册以获得完整的命令参考和教程。

我不认为使用Git和Dropbox是正确的选择……想想两者的特点:

Git:

允许您拥有一个中央存储库 允许您使用自己的更改拥有自己的存储库 允许您从中央存储库发送和接收更改 允许多人更改相同的文件，他们合并他们或要求你合并他们，如果它不能这样做 web和桌面客户端是否允许访问中央存储库

Dropbox:

将所有内容保存在中央存储库中 允许您在服务器中拥有自己的文件版本 强制您从中央存储库发送和接收更改 如果多人更改相同的文件，第一个提交的文件将被稍后提交的文件所取代，并且不会发生合并，这很麻烦(这肯定是它最大的缺点) 具有web和桌面客户端以允许访问中央存储库。

如果你担心泄露你的文件，为什么不加密呢?然后你就可以得到Dropbox to Git的最大优势，那就是拥有公共和私人文件……

我认为Dropbox上的Git很棒。我一直在用它。我有多台电脑(两台在家里，一台在公司)，我把Dropbox作为一个中央的存储库。因为我不想把它托管在公共服务上，而且我也没有可以通过SSH访问的服务器，Dropbox通过在后台同步来解决这个问题(非常快)。

设置是这样的:

~/project $ git init
~/project $ git add .
~/project $ git commit -m "first commit"
~/project $ cd ~/Dropbox/git

~/Dropbox/git $ git init --bare project.git
~/Dropbox/git $ cd ~/project

~/project $ git remote add origin ~/Dropbox/git/project.git
~/project $ git push -u origin master

从那里，你可以克隆~/Dropbox/git/项目。git目录(无论它是否属于你的Dropbox帐户或在多个帐户之间共享)并执行所有正常的git操作-它们将自动同步到你所有的其他机器。

我写了一篇博客文章“关于版本控制”，其中介绍了环境设置背后的原因。它基于我的Ruby on Rails开发经验，但实际上它可以应用于任何东西。