That does sound nice. I wasn’t aware of the version control, and I’m somewhat curious how that would work. Thinking about it, I’d prefer the manual approach Subversion requires where I can enter a message each time. After doing a few searches, I’m not sure you can even get anything similar to a commit message in Google Drive. The commit messages I’ve found to be essential in decoding what separates older versions of files from newer ones.
There are some more practical issues for me. I run Linux. There’s no official Google Drive client for Linux, and last I checked the clients that exist aren’t good. I also sometimes work at a government science lab. They don’t allow any sort of cloud file synchronization software aside from their own version of SkyDrive, which requires me to log in via a VPN (and is a total pain). No idea if SkyDrive works on Linux, anyway. They don’t seem to be aware of rsync, thankfully. :-)
That does sound nice. I wasn’t aware of the version control, and I’m somewhat curious how that would work. Thinking about it, I’d prefer the manual approach Subversion requires where I can enter a message each time. After doing a few searches, I’m not sure you can even get anything similar to a commit message in Google Drive. The commit messages I’ve found to be essential in decoding what separates older versions of files from newer ones.
There are some more practical issues for me. I run Linux. There’s no official Google Drive client for Linux, and last I checked the clients that exist aren’t good. I also sometimes work at a government science lab. They don’t allow any sort of cloud file synchronization software aside from their own version of SkyDrive, which requires me to log in via a VPN (and is a total pain). No idea if SkyDrive works on Linux, anyway. They don’t seem to be aware of rsync, thankfully. :-)