a bridge to dropbox (git only)

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "MJ" == Manuel Jacob <me at manueljacob.de> writes:

> On 2020-05-30 13:57, 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.

> Hg-git always manages a shadow Git repository. You could write some
> glue code (e.g. a shell function) that

> 1) pulls using git-remote-dropbox (from inside the .hg/git directory)
> and imports the changes into hg using "hg gimport"
> 2) exports the changes to git using "hg gexport" and pushes using
> git-remote-dropbox (from inside the .hg/git directory)

ok, that does not sound too complicated

> This way you have two bridges (hg <-> git <-> dropbox), so there's a
> high change that things break, but you could be lucky.

That is encouraging ;-)


> Alternatively someone could implement a Mercurial peer that can
> communicate with dropbox (that would be the equivalent of what 
> git-remove-dropbox does). I don’t know how much work that would be.

Right, after some thinking I am not sure that this dropbox plan is a
good strategy, I will it were.
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