Category Archives: Development Tips

Creating a Code Repository in DropBox

So something very important to developers is backing up your code, and also version control. In this post I am going to show how to set up a mercurial repository inside a dropbox. This post requires some knowledge of mercurial and or version control. This will enable a version control system inside a dropbox for backup and easy to access on other computers. I am using TortoiseHG for handling mercurial, you can check it out and download it here http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/. And for dropbox you can get it here http://db.tt/E3rO0W6E <– (that is a referral link, if you use it you get an extra 500MB of storage and so do I.)

So after you both of those installed (if you are having trouble and need help leave me a comment or send me an email and I will do my best to help you) Go to the folder the project you want to add to version control. Right click in the folder and go to TortoiseHg > Create Repositoy

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