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I've moved my personal working source-dir to Dropbox, and symlinked it to ~/src on both my computers (in addition to my editor's workspace and session files, amongst other things).

It has worked like a charm in my case, though the odd conflict does occur when changing very quickly back and forth between keyboards. I've also experienced some sync failures when rapidly changing lots of small files, but this can be remedied by pausing and resuming sync.

Though I've been doing this for years, I have never experienced any bigger problems that I were not able to fix with a quick rollback via Dropbox' web interface.

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