a bridge to dropbox (git only)

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "PD" == Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> writes:

   > On 5/30/20 1:57 PM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
   >> Hi
   >> Googling I found the following
   >> https://github.com/anishathalye/git-remote-dropbox
   >> Does anybody know about a similar feature for mercurial?
   >> I could use the hg-git extension, but I am not sure that this would be a
   >> could idea.
   >> Any comments?

   > Out of curiosity, what's your use case to use blackbox as
   > hosting/sharing method ? that seem extra complicated?

Well to work with collaborators who don't gasp (or better who don't
want to gasp) the problem of merging. So every time they push and they get
the famous 

,----
| remote has heads on branch 'default' that are not known locally: 46bbefa0d331
| abort: push creates new remote head 7efcd9b8376c!
| (pull and merge or see 'hg help push' for details about pushing new heads)
`----

They freak out, and claim that a dropbox solution is much simpler (since
editing or merging conflict are there but not noticed, which is a great
self delusion ;-)

So I thought 

    1. Explaining merge

    2. Recommending hg fetch

    3. Using named branches

    4. Using bookmarks

    5. Using hg push -f

Then  I thought let them copy their changes to dropbox, and try to sort out the
mess they will create, but then it is not worth the effort.

I think I will 1) give again a try, if not 5), (and I sort out the mess)

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