Xueping Sun

problem description: I want to combine my dropbox folder with my github repository for project management. The challenge is that

I already had worked on this project in dropbox for like 1 year and had used git locally
I worked sometimes on my office Win PC, and sometimes on my personal Macbook

I want a solution that allows the following:

my github repository will serve as a remote hub to managing the code/data/results
I can continue working between Win PC and macbook
- I can pull from or push to the remote respository

challenges in 2

if through dropbox all codes/data/results can by synced except *.git
- good for dropbox storage space
- bad for git consistency, as
  - when I make a pull from PC1, the operated objs will be synced aumatically through dropbox anyway on PC2, but the *.git on PC2 are not updated and will results in lags/forwards comapred with the remote hub
  - similar issues exist for a push request
if through dropbox all codes/data/results as well as *.git are also synced
- dropbox and git hate each other!

solution

Win PC drobpox allows for git and connect with github, but exclude git from sync
macbook dropbox exlude git, only sync file changes (extra back-up)
an extra macbook local repository for working

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