Sometimes I use a simple editor like Notepad++ to edit my webpages on Dropbox.
Notepad++, not being an über-editor or IDE, does not track file changes for me.
But Dropbox does!!
Has anybody written a tool that is able to quickly view version history for a particular file in Dropbox? After all, saving to Dropbox is essentially like doing a commit to VCS.
Does anybody know if Dropbox exposes any API for querying past versions of a file?
Answer
Revisions is an OS X option which has a specialized interface to facilitate browsing revisions.
I found this after I posted the original question, and it does a great job satisfying my requirement of quickly finding items. I wanted to avoid using the Dropbox web interface for that purpose.
No i am not trying to plug the product (come on, it's free!) I'm just writing this to report that I found what I was looking for in this product and that it solves my problem.
It solves my problem by giving me everything I could have wished for. It clearly uses the API which was mentioned in the previously accepted answer, and does all of the heavy lifting for you so that you can take a peek at your dropbox file content history, and then get on with the rest of your life.
The one downside is that I cannot use it from my Windows PC, I have to pull out my Macbook.
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