Is it a bad idea to use Dropbox as a backup system for Subversion repositories?
Has anyone tried using Subversion with an an online file sharing utility like Dropbox? What's your experiences?
My concern is whether this will work - mainly because Subversion maintains locks and it's very specific about it. I'm not sure if Dropbox and Subversion can both work together?
p.s. I'm thinking of using this for my Xcode projects, and no, i don't want to use github because it's not free - you can't keep your repositories Private with the free account (and other reasons).
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Dropbox (file sync, sharing, and online backup)
Subversion (open source version control system)
I've got Dropbox, SVN and Xcode working fine here, I've had no problems what so ever.
You don't even need to be careful about which machine you commit/update from as Dropbox keeps EVERYTHING synchronised.