Now, go to your code folder on your windows machine and start the Git Bash window (looks like a CMD-window). Obviously, this can also be done from Windows Explorer (new folder). You want this folder as git produces a lot of files and you may want other stuff on your google drive besides your code repository. Now, create a folder in your Google Drive folder called “git”. If everything went OK, you now have a Google Drive folder in your “user” folder under your windows user folder like so (where your username shows up instead of JoeUser as in this example) C:\Users\JoeUser\Google Drive Get a google account at /drive and then download google drive for windows (you’ll find the link at when you are logged on with your google account This tutorial of setting up Git for Google Drive is for Windows, though the procedure for *nix based systems is almost the same except for the folder structure.
The setup isn’t even that hard but there are some places you can stumble. So then, it’s really great to see that there’s a (quite) simple way of using Google Drive as the code repository for Git. So far I’ve been having a private repository at a host, but that’s not uber practical either since backup is non-existing and you eventually will feel the need / lust for re-installing that system. While there are many public repositories out there, they all come with a caveat do you really want to host your private code with something you don’t know will be there tomorrow.
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