#git on freenode has some interesting thought about this:<p>11:44 -gitinfo(jast@infobot.gitrecipes.de)- Storing git repositories on DropBox is a Very Bad Idea™. Use a free hosting service (such as Bitbucket or GitHub), or read !dropbox_why if you insist upon having your repo corrupted.<p>11:44 <iveqy> !dropbox_why<p>11:44 -gitinfo(jast@infobot.gitrecipes.de)- git uses a lot of frequently-changed small files, which dropbox's synchronization algorithms barf on. Use of multiple dropbox clients compounds this, with hilarious results
<i>Something faster, something that didn't require connection to central server, yet still allowed me to access my work on both my home and work computers. Git alone met majority of these requirements, I just needed a remote repository to share and sync my work between computers.</i><p>Other DVCS's (Hg, Fossil, Bazaar, Monotone, etc.) did not?