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I see many CS students who use Dropbox as an alternative to real SC systems due to its ease of use.
Do you use Dropbox as a quick-and-dirty source control solution? Is this a valid use for it?
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Not really, but Dropbox in concert with GIT, maybe. For a single developer scenario where you want to work on more than one development machine, I think this would work just fine.
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