Dropbox and SVN

Posted on February 8, 2010

For those of you who have Dropbox accounts and need some SVN hosting that can’t be Open Source, I came across a novel idea that I think you’ll like.

Basically, all you need to do is create a SVN repository in a subfolder of your dropbox. So, for example it might be:

svnadmin create /Users/username/Dropbox/some/secret/project/trunk

Then, you just use that repository from your command line or IDE and Dropbox will make a backup of it in the background as you go along. If there’s more than one person working on it, all you have to do is share the folder with that person on Dropbox, and voila, source control for the masses.

Also, don’t forget if you have Time Machine, or some other backup software, there will be an incremental backup in that too - so you’ll have a local backup too.

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3 Responses to “Dropbox and SVN”

  1. Alex Gordon on April 9th, 2010 12:32 am

    Все фоты просто отпад…

    For those of you who have Dropbox accounts and need some SVN hosting that can’t be Open Source, I came across a novel idea that I think you’ll like…..

  2. Kylie Batt on April 15th, 2010 6:13 pm

    Я извиняюсь, но, по-моему, Вы не правы. Могу это доказать. Пишите мне в PM, поговорим….

    svnadmin create /Users/username/Dropbox/some/secret/project/trunk
    Then, you just […….

  3. Kylie Batt on May 20th, 2010 5:51 am

    Авторитетный ответ, познавательно……

    Basically, all you need to do is create a SVN repository in a subfolder of your dropbox…..

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