vim-syncr

vim-syncr is a simple vim script for uploading/downloading files to a remote location or deleting files from a remote location using rsync over ssh.

I needed to solve this workflow and its criterias:

1. Local git repository with typical web files (html, php, images, etc)
2. Remote web root
3. Mirror my local environment to the remote web root minus files/directories marked for exclusion (yes "web files", no git folder)

Criterias:

• Must be able to "clean up" remotely by deleting or renaming files that I delete or rename locally
• Authorization and authentication must "Just work" with SSH keys; I want no hassle, no password prompts

I found vim-hsftp but I couldn't quite get it to work. It did however have excellent configuration loading code, so vim-syncr is forked from vim-hsftp. All credit goes to hesselbom/vim-hsftp; without it this project would never have been started.

Install:

Install like you would any other Vundle compatible plugin.

Usage:

Create a filed called .syncr in your project's root directory containing the following configuration, chmod it to 700 and chpwn it for security:

    $ cat /Desktop/projects/newproject/.syncr
    remote_host     www-dev.example.com
    remote_user     bob
    remote_path     /home/bob/html/site1/
    project_path    ~/Desktop/projects/site1/

Commands

:VsUpload

Syncs files and directories with remote

:VsDelete

Syncs any file or directory deletions with remote

:VsDownload

Syncs files and directories with remote (grabs foreign new files)

Mappings

<leader>vsu

Calls :VsUpload

<leader>vsdel

Calls :VsDelete

<leader>vsd

Calls :VsDownload