Do note that, with multiple users that have write access and push at the same time, this can result in race conditions and corrupted repositories. So only use this for a personal repository, or when the others only have read access.
Article could be summarized to one sentence "Put your git repo in your Dropbox". It does also go on to suggest that you share this folder with other Dropbox users but that's a bad idea. Even single users can end up with problems if they use multiple machines, git doesn't understand Dropbox's method of dealing with conflicts.
This seems like a terrible idea. Not sure why it's getting so much attention, is it just because Dropbox is mentioned?<p><a href="https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitHosting" rel="nofollow">https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitHosting</a> is where I would say people should start if they want to host a .git.
I think calling it a 'git server' is a bit much. Its only feature is to sync the repo between different computers. As wladimir pointed out, it's not even reliable when you have multiple committers.
How is this different from <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2229756" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2229756</a> (still on the frontpage) ?
hmmm.... I've used that together with a friend for quite some time now and we never had problems. I assume we were just lucky. Thank you people, for clearing that up.<p>And yes, of course you're right, it's not really a server.