[TxMt] Remote projects

[Sean Schertell]

> In response to Sean's request, "build rsync into TextMate" : *ahem* it
> is built in :)

Really?  It's built into TextMate?  Where?

Sean



On Sep 22, 2005, at 5:39 AM, Kumar McMillan wrote:

> I much prefer the rsync method.  I work locally with all code in
> subversion or cvs and most of the time I rsync to a dev server for
> testing before commits (the dev server has 20G+ test databases
> configured, etc).
>
> Doing this in TextMate is a synch.  At first I just had an rsync -auv
> command that synced my ~/Sites with $USER at dev:~/public_html.  When I
> got a lot of projects going I found rsync started to slow down so I
> use a python script now which basically syncs just the current project
> or the file (if no project).  The script also adds some sugar, like
> --exclude ".svn" --exclude ".DS_Store" and guesses some paths, can
> handle multiple servers/users, etc.  If anyone would be interested in
> the script let me know.
>
> In response to Sean's request, "build rsync into TextMate" : *ahem* it
> is built in :)
>
> On 9/21/05, Kevin Ballard <kevin at sb.org> wrote:
>
>> You can already implement this yourself. Write a command "Sync to
>> server" and one "Sync from server" that uses rsync to sync the
>> project document root to/from the server, with the server defined in
>> project-level environment variables. Then you can just create a new
>> project, set the env vars, and save the project, and from then on
>> simply open the project and sync from server, do whatever work you
>> want, then sync back to server.
>>
>> On Sep 20, 2005, at 11:29 PM, Sean Schertell wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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?!
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Kevin Ballard
>> kevin at sb.org
>> http://www.tildesoft.com
>> http://kevin.sb.org
>>
>>
>>
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