Best way to manage a project synced via FTP / Git repo, in multiple locations Follow
Hi everyone!
I'm very fall in love with PhpStorm (I'm an ex NETBeans users); but to made a perfect environment for my purpose, I have to get some ideas / configurations to make my project works in every place I work in.
Here's a little example of what I need:
I have my website where I'm the only one where I works every day, but I have to coding in different places: home, office, on train, etc. So I have multiple devices where I have to work, my office laptop, my home laptop and my home desktop.
For now, I have only one project in only device, where the working process, the office one, is: Coding > Save > [File watchers (LESS, SASS, etc)] > Auto-deployment on a FTP server; and at the end of the task: .git commit and .git push.
I use a private repository only for syncing and backup purpose.
What's my target? When I come back to home, I have to .git pull down from the repository and continuing to work as well as I been in the office: open my website project on PHPStorm (after the pulling the repo), Coding > Save > [File watchers (LESS, SASS, etc)] > Auto-deployment on a FTP server; and at the end of the task: .git commit and .git push; and so on.
The first project I opened, it was a New project from existing files, with files accessible via FTP.
The second project that I will open on another place, how will it be? If I recreate a project with remote files, I have to re-download them from the remote source, and if I open a new empty project, I don't know how to use the same configurations of the original project.
Obviously, I have to maintain the same configurations (CSS compiling, compression, but also code editor settings, and so on).
What's the best way to do something like that? I have already installed Toolbox, but I think it's useless in this case.
Any ideas or configuration will be appreciate!
Thank you,
Gianluca
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Are you planning to re-download the whole project anyway or you're planning to just plug in usb, copy the project & try to sync this with remotes?
Anyway I would go with "VCS > Checkout from Version Control". This would clone a git repo of your project.
Hi Dmitry, thanks for the reply.
I'm planning to re-download the project from the .git with SourceTree, for example, then synchronize it with the remote server.
If I use "Checkout from Version Control", then, how can I sync the project with the remote server?
If you're about to use "Checkout from version control", you can then:
1. just add a deployment configuration at Tools > Deployment > Configuration
2. adjust path mappings there at "Mapping" tab
3. right click a project root > Deployment > Sync with deployed to...
This should open a Sync menu that would compare local & remote files. There will be an option to download (sync) differences if any.
Thanks! It's seems to work very well!
You're welcome :)