[ubuntu-za] Sync folders using git

[Keegan Carruthers-Smith]

2011/2/24 Daniël Louw <daniel at dline.co.za>:
> My question is, how can I use git to sync two folders on one machine, as in
> sync my documents folder to the documents folder on my thumb drive?
If you want to sync on your flash drive this should work:

$ cd /media/flash/gitrepo
$ git pull /path/to/repo/on/machine master

But I second Tim's suggestion of using Dropbox. It is pretty much
exactly what you want.

Cheers,
Keegan