Mercurial (and, I guess Git) with Dropbox: any drawbacks?

Question

I have a Mercurial repository for a personal project, and I have been storing the master repository in my Dropbox for a few weeks now (something along this line; and I under

Answer 1

+1 for bitbucket. It's free, and you get a single private repo with that free account (unlike github).

The drawback with the dropbox only solution is that if you do screw something up in the repo on your machine, that screwup will be copied out to bitbucket and replicated to every other place you've got the dropbox installed. Dropbox is very quick, so you won't be able to stop it from happening in time to prevent issues.

You lose the ability to decouple making changes to your repository with publishing those changes.

I do use dropbox to host a couple of repositories that I use on both my home and work machines, but those aren't the only copies of those repositories. There's also a bitbucket repo (as well as other people that have clones of them).