Develop in two places

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  • April 17, 2017 at 8:53 pm #6351
    Anonymous
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      Hi,

      I’m looking to start develop some of my own programs. For now, it’s more about learning than anything too serious. One thing I’d like to be able to do is to develop on both my desktop and on my MacBook.

      My initial thought was to set up a git repository on my Raspberry Pi, but I’ve been having issues getting that running. Git is running on the Pi, but SourceTree just can not find the repositories.

      I tried an install of Gitlab on the Pi as well, but that seems to want all sorts of things.

       

       

      I was wondering if I was trying to crack a nut with a hammer here, and if there is a much simpler solution to this?

       

      Thanks

      April 18, 2017 at 7:22 am #6361
      Ed PEd P
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        There is always the USB stick repository (assuming you have not got one of the latest (silly) Mac Books without that option. Just remember to rename each attempt and you will even have a ‘rough’ historising setup. For years I just used my NAS to do the same thing.

        April 18, 2017 at 9:21 pm #6408
        TipponTippon
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          If it’s just a case of storing the various files to make them available on both machines, would Google Drive do it?

          April 19, 2017 at 9:47 am #6428
          TCBarrettTCBarrett
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            Was there a reason not to use something like github or bitbucket?

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            April 19, 2017 at 11:00 pm #6470
            Anonymous
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              In turn:

              @EdP – it’d be a tedious process and very manual to manage it like that


              @Tippon              , version control wouldn’t be workable with Google Drive or similar


              @TCBarrett              , I’d rather not have my code publicly online.

              In the end, I forgot about the GUI tools and jumped to the Command line. It’ll take me a bit of time to get the hang of it, but I had the whole thing done so much quicker with the cmd tools. Pity no GUI that uses them actually implements them correctly.

              April 20, 2017 at 12:08 am #6472
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                Anonymous wrote:

                  @tippon, version control wouldn’t be workable with Google Drive or similar

                Couldn’t you set up subfolders under a main project folder, like \version 0.1 and \version 0.2 etc., so they’d be backed up into the same folders? I don’t know if I’m missing anything, as I don’t program (yet). It’s on the never ending To Do list though, so I’m always looking for tips and tricks  :mail:

                April 20, 2017 at 6:11 am #6475
                TCBarrettTCBarrett
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                  It can still be private. Can’t remember exactly what bitbucket offers right now, but new pricing structure has unlimited private repos.

                  https://bitbucket.org/product/pricing/upcoming

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