Can I push/pull directly from my google drive online?

Question

There are methods to sync my local git repository over to my google drive via google drive sync windows application, but I was wondering whether I could bypass its need alto

Answer 1

Here is a very good article on the subject (archived version here, with the relevant parts reproduced here):

Lets say you have a project named johndoe with a file README like below:

/var/www/html/johndoe/
/var/www/html/johndoe/README

Initialise an empty Git repository here:

$ cd /var/www/html/johndoe
$ git init
$ git add README
$ git commit README -m "Initial commit."

Change the directory to where your Google Drive is located and initialize a bare repository:

$ cd /Users/myusername/Google\ Drive/
$ mkdir johndoe
$ cd johndoe
$ git init --bare

Go back to your working directory:

$ cd /var/www/html/johndoe
$ git remote add origin file:///Users/myusername/Google\ Drive/johndoe
$ git push origin master

To clone your Git repository from Google Drive:

$ cd /var/www/html/johndoe2
$ git clone file:///Users/myusername/Google\ Drive/johndoe