@o_guest warned me about this when I first started using git and I've been too afraid to try 
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That should explain why just putting a git repo won't work and what combinations of git and dropbox do work.
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*me reading the article* "oh god, even more ways for me to set my git repo on fire"
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I think the scary thing mentioned is that it might corrupt your repo without warning or failure on the git side until it's too late. Not had that issue... Yet...
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Yup. It's risky as they aren't actually compatible by definition. I mean look into a repo's .git folder and tell me you trust Dropbox not to destroy that.

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Yeah, binary files don't belong on git anyway. So as you say LFS or git-annex/datalad or OSF (it has an API too and can link to Dropbox etc).
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