Using Subversion with DropBox

Question

Is it a bad idea to use DropBox as a backup system for Subversion repositories?

Has anyone tried using Subversion with an an online file sharing utility like DropBox? Wh

Answer 1

May be this will help you. I have put SVN Reposiroty inside of a Dropbox Folder. http://foyzulkarim.blogspot.com/2012/12/dropbox-as-svn-repository.html

Answer 2

I think it will probably work out OK if you're not accessing the repository from different locations, and let is synchronize before using it. It doesn't seem like a very stable solution though.

Is there any reason you can't us a publicly available URL for your repository?

Answer 3

I've got Dropbox, SVN and Xcode working fine here, I've had no problems what so ever.

You don't even need to be careful about which machine you commit/update from as Dropbox keeps EVERYTHING synchronised.

Answer 4

i got problems when use Dropbox to sync svn repository, once Dropbox failed to access one file, the file doesn't be synced again. then, the svn structure was been destroyed...