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The command line address book
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ppl init on locally synced drive e.g. DropBox #16

Closed RichardConroy closed 11 years ago

RichardConroy commented 11 years ago

As a temporary workaround for full sync capability (to gmail, icloud etc.) is it safe or reasonable to host the contacts database on a DropBox drive?

I have hosted Git repos in this way before, but they can be a bit temperamental when accessed from multiple computers.

henrycatalinismith commented 11 years ago

Interesting idea. There's nothing special or different about the git repositories created by the ppl init command, so this is as viable for your ppl address book as it is for any other git repository.

I'm not a Dropbox user myself, and I've never tried hosting git repositories on Dropbox. After a quick bit of searching, I've found that there are mixed opinions out there on whether it's a good idea or a bad idea.

Based on these factors, the closest thing to a concrete answer that I can offer is whether I would do this. Personally, I don't think I would, but it sounds like it'd probably be fine 99% of the time.

For what it's worth, I'm currently handling this with a --bare version of my address book repository living on my VPS. I use plain git commands such as fetch and push to manage all the syncing. Still considering ways of streamlining this within ppl itself.