Dropbox can be a great alternative to GitHub if you want to hack away at a small project either alone or on a team of 2-3, without necessarily using up a private GitHub repo.
####Advantages
- Lightweight
- You can Dropbox-share the folder containing the git repo and clone it on your laptop, at home, etc...
- Fast!
####Caveat:
- When you do a push, your git objects get copied to your Dropbox folder and then Dropbox initiates its cloud-sync immediately. If two people push at the same time you may be at risk of a race condition. Make sure to communicate/coordinate with collaborators before pushing/pulling.
####Usage
Assuming you have the following two folders for storing your repos and working on them, respectively:
~/Dropbox/git/
~/workspace/
Place repo.thor in your home folder, and run
thor repo:create foobar
which will do the following:
mkdir ~/Dropbox/git/foobar
git init --bare ~/Dropbox/git/foobar/foobar.git
cd ~/workspace
mkdir foobar && cd foobar
touch README.md
git add .
git commit -m 'Initial Commit'
git remote add origin ~/Dropbox/git/foobar/foobar.git
git push -u origin master
echo "export foobar=~/workspace/foobar" >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'alias foobar="cd $foobar"' >> ~/.bashrc####Thanks to Eduardo del Balso for the idea