How does a mobile student leverage Dropbox with version control?

Question

I have a laptop preparing for the upcoming semester, which will see me taking a university programming course, working full time. Of course, I will use a version control system (possibly Subversion) and had the idea of ​​creating my repositories in the Dropbox folder, which would allow me to locally check and work with the code using my laptop or my desktop (or, really, any other a computer that can access the Internet), and then transfer it back to the Dropbox shared repository.

• Any pitfalls or reasons why this is not the best way to accomplish my task? (Suppose I can avoid corrupting the SVN repository by doing something stupid.)
• Any obvious benefits for a web hosting solution that outweigh the benefits of Dropbox (namely, free and already configured on my machines)?
• Any other strategies for sharing code from multiple locations?

Note. I am not going to share the Dropbox folder with others, as I understand that a few people accessing the repository through file://are a bad idea. My question applies only to an individual user.

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Answer 2

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Or it would be even more ideal to set up your own server to host the svn or Git repository, but this is obviously not always an option.