On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 23:39 +0200, Morten Albrigtsen wrote: > Hi everyone. > > This is my first mail on the list. > > I am working alot with web development, and after a pretty good while > doing my regular sftp's to my servers, I am getting tired. > > GNOME is wonderful, and suit my daily needs perfect. It is fast, > realiable, and really productive to use. I've been using GNOME since the > 1.3 release, and I'm stunned over the rapid development of the project. > > One thing that would increase ( at least my ) productivity even more, > would be a simple way to sync my local web site folders, with the ones > online. Since I prefer developing pages offline, on my local httpd, and > then upload them, there is often a little difference on the > online/offline version of the sites, and it does kind of throw me back > and forward... ( Fix a bug online, forget to make the change offline, > create a new feature offline, upload it, BUG IS BACK...) >
Use a version control system, dude! I maintain and develop a handful of websites (professional ones, plus help with some GNOME ones) as CVS or Subversion checkouts. When I've tested my patch locally, I commit, and a server-side script triggers an update on the live site (and other stuff too). It's trivial to set up, and gives you a complete working history, plus the ability to revert patches atomically etc. Why settle for anything less? :) > > I was thinking about writing some kind of applet, where I could click > sync - select a configuration - and then the system would use ssh to > sync the local files and directories with the remote ones, ( to my > servers running rsync ). I thought about using glade to accomplish this, > but I googled a little first, and found this thread on the list > archive: > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-network-list/2004-March/msg00000.html > > I thought to myself, why reinvent the wheel? ;-) > I had a similar thought myself once. It would be cool to replace my 'backup-to-home-server.sh' script (which is just a load of rsync commands) with a cool gconf'ed HIGified panel applet that tracks sets of rsync commands (and flags, such as '--delete-after', '--delete-before') as rules which can be run at will. I haven't seen anything that fits the bill so far, so my guess is that there's probably a gap in the market, so to speak. Regards, -- Ross _______________________________________________ gnome-network-list mailing list gnome-network-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-network-list
