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Sublime SFTP and FTP Plugin (w/ Remote Browsing)

#67

[quote=“iamntz”]

Last time i used this feature (upload changed files), I wasn’t able to upload files that i staged & commited.
If nothing had changed, there is a way to something like „upload files from revision” ?[/quote]

I understand what you are looking for, but really this starts getting real complex real fast to support 3 different VCSes and their different models for revisions and an interface to browse and retrieve the versions of files for those revisions. To do this there would need to be pretty tight integration with a more full-featured VCS plugin for the VCS you are looking for.

That said, all of the SFTP commands are documented in the key bindings file, so it should be possible to create your own plugin to do all of the introspection of the VCS and export the appropriate files, then use the SFTP plugin to upload them.

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#68

Mail sent :smile:

Yes please, it would be very good to keep track of already uploaded files. And when selecting “upload folder/file” only modified files gets uploaded.(besides whatever there is git or not on project )
It would be very good too, if you can save the list of already uploaded files on a session file ( internal if possible, not on project directories. )
Handy probably is to add a “clean uploaded file cache” menuitem, to forget these entries.

This way upload command will work very fast in a very practical manner.
Regards,

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#69

Hell I’ve been using this plugin for a few weeks and it’s recently started crashing my installation of ST2 on upload. Not always and from what I can tell there really is not pattern but it happens consistently, say, 20% of the time now. Seems to be worse the longer I go without making an upload. :frowning:

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#70

Version 1.9.0 is out, and it should fix this crashing issue you’ve experienced.

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#71

Does this plugin have the functionality that informs me if the file has been changed since my last upload? This is the only thing I need to work out in order to move from Dreamweaver to Sublime.

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#72

You will want to use the confirm_overwrite_newer setting in your sftp-config.json file. wbond.net/sublime_packages/sftp/ … rite_newer

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#73

I have done this but it doesn’t cover all situations. I work on a project with 2 other people. All machines have the same synchronized clock times in windows and it works only for the first or second minute. If I save after 5-10 minutes and upload it overwrites my colleague’s file without telling me that it has been changed since my last upload.

In Dreamweaver this works perfectly!

I have “confirm_overwrite_newer”: true
and also tried “preserve_modification_times” with all possible values but it doesn’t seem to be working like DW!

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#74

[quote=“georgemastro”]

I have done this but it doesn’t cover all situations. I work on a project with 2 other people. All machines have the same synchronized clock times in windows and it works only for the first or second minute. If I save after 5-10 minutes and upload it overwrites my colleague’s file without telling me that it has been changed since my last upload.

In Dreamweaver this works perfectly!

I have “confirm_overwrite_newer”: true
and also tried “preserve_modification_times” with all possible values but it doesn’t seem to be working like DW![/quote]

If you turn on debug logging (wbond.net/sublime_packages/sftp/support) and set it to level 2, the console will contain info about what is going on.

It is only possible to detect the file modification time down to the minute - seconds are reported in the file listing. It may be possible that if you are writing the file in the same minute that the plugin may not be considering the server “newer” in that situation. You should be able to confirm this with the debug log, but I will also do some tests on my end.

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#75

I believe in giving credit where credit is due; this is an amazing tool for Sublime Text 2. I probably wouldn’t - couldn’t, even - use Sublime without it. Great job! I’ll definately throw a few dollars your way, if that helps you keeping up the good work!

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#76

I’m confused. Does this allow me to browse through a remote directory on the sidebar like a local directory? Browse Server just seems to list the folders and let me navigate but only in a popup each time

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#77

Unfortunately Sublime does not currently have an API to manipulate the sidebar, so server browsing happens through the quick panel. If you want to try and treat a remote project as a local project you should try out expandrive.com/ or if you are on a Mac, Transit also has a mount option.

Alternatively you can download the whole project and use the Sync Remote -> Local functionality to look for changes. This can take some time depending on the side of the remote folder structure and how fast your connection is.

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#78

Hmm, that’s a shame. The way I currently work is on a remote server where the directory is very large to download and changes regularly, so it’s been easier to browse and edit files directly. I guess I can try to get used to the quick bar or try one of those mounting options. Do you know if a sidebar API is coming in a future release?

edit: Expandrive works great!

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#79

It keeps crashing when uploading even more than 10 files on linux/Ubuntu.

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#80

Please turn on debug logging to level 2 (support@wbond.net.

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#81

Were you using nightly version 2184, 2185, or 2186? It appears there were some crashing issues with those which may be your issue. Normally after 10 uploads a popup appears reminding you that you need to register for anything other than evaluation purposes.

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#82

Hi, I just bought your very nice program but I can’t figure out to make it remember my ftp password. When I’m working on some files and, maybe once every 10 minutes, I wan’t to upload something, I’m beeing asked for the password. Sometimes I don’t notice it and begin wondering why the changes won’t occur…

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#83

There is a password field in the config file (for both the Server and Remote workflows). If you enter it there, you won’t need to enter it when you connect. Unfortunately for the sake of not destroying the formatting and comments in the config files, it is not possible to save the password when you are prompted for it.

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#84

Oh, shame on me, I din’t see that field… Thanks alot! :smile:

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#85

So, I know that Sublime doesn’t currently have an API for custom sidebar items, so I was wondering, how hard would it be to create fake files in the filesystem so they show up in the sidebar and have them download when they are opened the first time?

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#86

It would take as much time as it currently does to do a remote -> local sync. The slow part is recursively parsing every remote folder to see the current contents. Normally when syncing remotely to locally there aren’t that many files changed. It is usually that a user has a large folder structure, or a connection that is no super-fast that causes it to be slow process.

For users that want to work on remote files as if they were local, with the full functionality of Sublime, you should try out expandrive.com. Some users find it fast enough, other find it too laggy.

The way to get the absolute best performance of working on remote files as if they were local is to make a local copy and use rsync to copy down the latest changes. This requires that the user have SSH access to the box and the rsync program installed locally and remotely. This can very efficiently detect the differences between files and it only transfers the data necessary to synchronize the two copies. There is still the limitation that you need to rsync pretty frequently if other users are also modifying the files.

Eventually people tend come to the conclusion that using a version control system is the best way to handle multiple people working on the same files, and ensuring that data is not lost. :smile: Unfortunately this is not always feasible based on project constraints.

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