[TxMt] Remote projects

[Sean Schertell]

Why not rsync?

I would personally *love* to see rsync built-in to textmate behind  
the scenes (using ssh of course).  So my local project could be  
'synced' in both directions to the remote project with a single  
click.  This would also solve Matthew's issue with the client making  
occasional updates too.

I'm not a Cocoa developer at all but I'm guessing that adding such a  
feature to TextMate would be fairly trivial since rsync is already  
available in OS X.

Wouldn't it be possible to just add a few fields to the project for  
remote document root, username, and password?  Then right in the main  
toolbar there could just be a single button called 'Sync'. Click -  
bang - everything is fresh in both directions.  Since rsync only  
updates changes, it would be very quick.

If textmate had this ability (and could also do Japanese), I would  
gladly pay $200 for it.  Seriously.  It's just such a waste of time  
to have to launch an FTP client, connect to the server, drill down to  
the file on the local side, then drill down to the directory on the  
remote side, then upload -- all that just to update the remote css  
file or whatever.  Rsync to the rescue?!

:-)

Sean



On Sep 21, 2005, at 7:08 AM, Matthew Erker wrote:

> I run into another real-world, practical hurdle which shoots any  
> attempt at version control to hell. Many a project I hand off to a  
> client gets altered by the client forcing me to work from their  
> "current" version. In a case such as that it would be very nice to  
> have a means of organizing and working remotely.
>
> Matt
>
> On Sep 20, 2005, at 4:59 PM, IxokaI wrote:
>
>
>> On 9/20/05, Ollivier Robert <roberto+textmate at keltia.freenix.fr>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> According to Ian White:
>>>
>>>
>>>> That just lets me edit files that I open via the transmit  
>>>> window, right?
>>>> I was hoping for a solution where I treat the remote side like the
>>>> filesystem, i.e. open tm on a folder.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'd recommend using a version control tool instead of modifying  
>>> files on
>>> the fly.  My personal preference goes to Mercurial[1] but any of the
>>> available systems would do (heck, even cvs would. Hmmm maybe  
>>> not :-))
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Sometimes version controls work. Sometimes they don't. This is one of
>> the great few features I really miss from UltraEdit in the old  
>> days of
>> me doing most of my programming on windows. There are many, many
>> circumstances where it is just not an option to use version  
>> control to
>> edit these remote files.
>>
>> Open from SFTP would be a godsend and save -so- much time and effort.
>> Transmit'n files back/forth is such a pain :)
>>
>> --Stephen
>>
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