Re: how best to maintain site locally and remotely, to keep in sync?

[Christopher Bort]

On 9/25/12 at 12:59 PM, bsab...@gmail.com (Bob S) wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I never heard of TextWrangler til recently but I love it. The
>ability to save straight to the FTP site is what I like. But
>how do people maintain sync between the server site and a local
>backup? I have just been using 'save as' when I remember but
>none of the files stay current. Is there any way to have it
>save both places, or something like that?

It sounds like you're asking about version control, which isn't
really the job of a text editor per se, TextWrangler or
otherwise. The classics for coding environments would be
packages like CVS, Subversion (SVN) and Git. Those, or similar
tools, are often included in or supported by integrated
development environments (IDEs). Google 'version control' or
'source control.'
--
Christopher Bort
<top...@thehundredacre.net>

[Thomas Humiston]

Ah, the joys of manual editing, and of backups.

My own usual approach is this:

1. Work mainly with the remote files. (The exception is when I'm developing something new and wish to be able to quickly and frequently reload the site.)

2. Periodically download the entire site to a dated local folder. (When prodded by iCal, I download via the Fetch app, which enables dragging the site to the desktop in one step.)

I find working with just one save location and backing up that work less taxing than splitting my attention between local and remote. The approach is not automated, but it's simple and reliable.

- TH

On Sep 25, 2012, at 3:59 PM, Bob S wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I never heard of TextWrangler til recently but I love it. The ability to save straight to the FTP site is what I like. But how do people maintain sync between the server site and a local backup? I have just been using 'save as' when I remember but none of the files stay current. Is there any way to have it save both places, or something like that?
>

> Thanks,
> Bob
>
>
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