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Originally Posted by Y_Less
Dropbox is a general purpose file store. For code there are much better specialised solutions, called code repositories. GIT, SVN, Mercurial, Darcs, CVS. I currently use GIT because you can get a free account in GitHub but I did used to have my own private SVN server.
Advantages (with examples):
- History - You can revert to any previous version ever:
YSI 4.0 history
- Logs - You write messages each time you upload the code, and those are saved to give you excellent tracking of what you've done:
YSI commit log
- Diffs - You can see EXACTLY what changed at any point:
Recent YSI diff
- Issues - People on your team (or anyone in a public repository) can list bugs:
YSI issues
- Online - Some clients allow you to edit things online.
- Contribution - You can have selected people or anyone contribute easily.
- Branches - When you are developing a new feature you can make a branch and do it there. The original version of your code is untouched so you can still use it live. When your new feature is complete you can merge the changes back in to the original - even if the original has changed (e.g. to fix bugs) in the meantime. I'm not great at branches so I don't have an example, but I do use them sometimes.
Seriously - forget Dropbox! Not only is it not designed for code, but it is closed-source and have you actually read their terms and conditions? |
What's up with their TOS? I read it very generally and could not find something wierd with it, what did I miss there?
