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

I've been using Dropbox with git for personal projects for quite some time now, and I haven't had a single problem yet. Although, there are times you have to wait for Dropbox to sync. I think this can cause minor problems if there are more than a few people working on the same project, but for personal projects, I find Dropbox to be even better than GitHub, if only for the fact that pushing/pulling is faster.

As for pushing/pulling mid-sync, this will most probably cause problems, and it might even corrupt your repo, but if you're the only one working on the project, then you know exactly when Dropbox will sync.