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Ask HN: Dropbox like site that respects .gitignore?

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I am looking for a online file storage like Dropbox that support .gitignore. I know I can selective sync in Dropbox and Gdrive but that is a very bottom up approach.

After some research it looks like Ubuntu One supported this but now the file storage is shutdown it seems.

So any ideas?

PS. My main reason for not using dropbox is that it starts syncing the node_modules and vendor folders inside my projects which wastes a lot of CPU and bandwidth.

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Why don't you keep your bare repo in Dropbox and work in a clone outside? This way you wouldn't have build artifacts syncing. Just push after committing and pull from other machines. If you work alone you don't risk conflicts. Or maybe even better, use Keybase.io encrypted git private repositories. They are free.

All my projects have .git directories inside them too. So creating a .git in top directory makes them submodules.

To fix that right now i'm using a mercurial repo for the top directory and .git inside my project dirs (since BitBucket supports both). This works for now but it's not automatic like Dropbox and there are size limitations. So just wondering what the most elegant solution is.

Just to be sure I have understood correctly, this is to have your different projects synchronized all at once, right?

Yes that is correct

Maybe than something like google Repo could be of help? Or maybe even a custom script using rsync to/from Dropbox with appropriate exclude options. Probably using something similar to what's described in https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/168602 or even better using git ls-files -i to get the ignore list (https://git-scm.com/docs/git-ls-files).

What OS are you using Keybase.io on? I tried to install latest version on Unbuntu 16.04 and it gave my error. Then I read something about messing with .ssh dir and I didn't proceed. I had a Go setup tool trash all my paths last year. Chastened from experience. TIA.

https://www.seafile.com is you're OK hosting it yourself : https://www.seafile.com/en/help/ignore/

If you're interested in messing around with `rclone`, I've found the filtering rules[0] to be very nice. Among others, it supports Google Drive and Dropbox itself.

[0]: https://rclone.org/filtering/

This looks really interesting. Kind of what I was looking for!

I’m personally running it only for my projects folders & syncing to B2. Upload/storage pricing is super low for that, but downloading from them gets expensive if you use it often. If you’re switching to rclone anyway, I’d suggest you do some research to determine what cloud provider makes most sense for you :)

Resilio Sync (formerly BT Sync) is a good non-cloud-based solution. It has an Ignore file that you can set up at the root level of each share.

I have a number of computers, so this works for me. Just add 'vendor' and 'node_modules' to the Ignore file in whatever your code share is and you're set.

I akwardly wrote about it a bit here: https://epatr.com/blog/2017/using-resilio-sync/

Isn't that what GitHub is for?

http://www.dropboxwiki.com/tips-and-tricks/exclude-folders-f...

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https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox/Ignore-folder-withou...

Check if https://github.com/anishathalye/git-remote-dropbox fits your workflow.

Keybase.io just added encrypted git. Might be worth looking into.

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