Poor man’s Git hosting
For those who don’t know me, I am very cheap. Actually, it’s a point of pride, and something I reflect in a positive light. I don’t think it’s bad to be frugal. This is true for the way I host my Git repositories too.
At any given time I have a dozen of so tiny repositories filled with little experiments of mine. Instead of paying $300 a year, I just stick them in my free Dropbox account.
Up
From your git working directory:
Then, to push your changes to Dropbox, just run:
Obviously, change out master for your branch name. Alternatively, you could set th branch to track from Dropbox by default with:
Down
Once your repository lives in Dropbox, cloning it is as simple as:
If you want to have a dropbox remote instead of the default origin run:
Pushing up changes follows the same steps listed above, and this all works for shared directories, too.
Shout Outs
I can’t take credit for any of this, so below are the multiple sources where I pieced this together from.