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		limmeau on May 12, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mercurial (hg) with Dropbox And if I work offline on different computers now and then, pushing to the Dropbox which then merges the repos in a Dropboxey way? Are .hg directories safe for concurrent modification?

brown9-2 on May 12, 2010 [–]

This is what I wanted to ask too. What if two users both push updates to their individual .hg folders in the Dropbox location?

I think the author might be sacrificing some reliability for the fact that he/she will be the only one working on the "shared" repo.

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