How to use Git and Dropbox together? [closed]

Answer 1

There's also an open source project (a collection of cross platform [Linux, Mac, Win] scripts) that does all the nitty-gritty details of the repository management with a handful (3-4) of commands.

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

Sample usage is:

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

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

After which normal git usage:

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

Check the project wiki and the manuals for full command reference and tutorials.

Answer 2

I like the top-voted answer by Dan McNevin. I ended up doing the sequence of git commands too many times and decided to make a script. So here it is:

#!/bin/bash

# Usage
usage() {
    echo "Usage: ${0} -m [ master-branch-directory ] -r [ remote-branch-directory ] [ project-name ]"
    exit 1
}

# Defaults
defaults() {
    masterdir="${HOME}/Dropbox/git"
    remotedir="${PWD}"
    gitignorefile="# OS generated files #\n\n.DS_Store\n.DS_Store?\n.Spotlight-V100\n.Trashes\nehthumbs.db\nThumbs.db"
}

# Check if no arguments
if [ ${#} -eq 0 ] ; then
    echo "Error: No arguments specified"
    usage
fi

#Set defaults
defaults

# Parse arguments
while [ ${#} -ge 1 ]; do
    case "${1}" in
        '-h' | '--help' ) usage ;;
        '-m' )
            shift
            masterdir="${1}"
            ;;
        '-r' )
            shift
            remotedir="${1}"
            ;;
        * )
            projectname="${1##*/}"
            projectname="${projectname%.git}.git"
            ;;
    esac
    shift
done

# check if specified directories and project name exists
if [ -z "${projectname}" ]; then
    echo "Error: Project name not specified"
    usage
fi

if [ ! -d "${remotedir}" ]; then
    echo "Error: Remote directory ${remotedir} does not exist"
    usage
fi

if [ ! -d "${masterdir}" ]; then
    echo "Error: Master directory ${masterdir} does not exist"
    usage
fi

#absolute paths
remotedir="`( cd \"${remotedir}\" && pwd )`"
masterdir="`( cd \"${masterdir}\" && pwd )`"

#Make master git repository
cd "${masterdir}"
git init --bare "${projectname}"

#make local repository and push to master
cd "${remotedir}"
echo -e "${gitignorefile}" > .gitignore # default .gitignore file
git init
git add .
git commit -m "first commit"
git remote add origin "${masterdir}/${projectname}"
git push -u origin master

#done
echo "----- Locations -----"
echo "Remote branch location: ${remotedir}"
echo "Master branch location: ${masterdir}"
echo "Project Name: ${projectname}"

The script only requires a project name. It will generate a git repository in ~/Dropbox/git/ under the specified name and will push the entire contents of the current directory to the newly created origin master branch. If more than one project name is given, the right-most project name argument will be used.

Optionally, the -r command argument specifies the remote branch that will push to the origin master. The location of the project origin master can also be specified with the -m argument. A default .gitignore file is also placed in the remote branch directory. The directory and .gitignore file defaults are specified in the script.