I have been using git for half a year or so and I don't know whether I am using git fully.
First of all, I have been experimenting with dropbox and I feel that if I can incorporate it into my work flow, it would be really great since dropbox is pretty convenient.
- I have a desktop, and a laptop. Both have dropbox.
- I initialized my dropbox repos by
doing a
git init --bare. And then in my Desktop's post-commit script, I have agit push --mirror dropbox.
This way my desktop and dropbox will always be completely mirrored, which is a good thing.
My real question is: How should I set up my laptop? I have been hearing a few suggestions:
- Pull from my desktop, so that my laptop's origin is desktop.
- Pull directly from dropbox so that my laptop's origin is dropbox.
I have been doing number 2, and I don't know if I am doing the right thing. My work flow includes:
- Everytime I am on my laptop, I do a git pull (since laptop's origin is dropbox and dropbox updates itself)
- Then when I check out a branch from dropbox to a local branch.
- After I am done with work, I commit.
- This is where I am confused: Should I push --mirror to my dropbox repos (my laptop's origin repos) too? I am getting some difficulties in this area: Sometimes dropbox doesn't sync quite well, etc
Currently, doing a git branch -r on my desktop after doing git push --mirror origin on my laptop doesn't show my recently laptop commits. Can someone tell me why?
I mentioned pulling from my desktop directly because that way I can always initialize the pull and I am 100% confident that the sync is done. With dropbox I can never be 100% sure whether the update has been pushed to the dropbox server