How does the DropBox Mac client work?

Question

I\'ve been looking at the DropBox Mac client and I\'m currently researching implementing a similar interface for a different service.

How exactly do they interface wit

Answer 1

To me it feels like a heavily modified revision control system. It has all the features: updates files based on deltas, options to recover or restore old revisions of files. It almost feels like they are using git (GitFS?), or some filesystem they designed.