Sourcesync Plugin

Sourcesync provides fast, one-way file synchronization for your projects.

The plugin replicates local changes on the remote infrastructure with support for a broad range of transport protocols:

SCP
SFTP
FTP
FTPS

How to install

Sourcesync plugin can be found at http://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7374?pr=idea_ce

Details about how to install a plugin from JetBrains plugin repository can be found at: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/installing-updating-and-uninstalling-repository-plugins.html

How to use it

Remote connection configurations can be added in the combo box placed in the Navigation bar at the right of Run/Debug Configuration combo box.

Create Sourcesync remote connection configurations

With the Navigation bar visible (View | Appearance | Navigation Bar), choose Edit Sourcesync Configurations from the remote connection configuration selector or press Ctrl + Shift + D.
In the Sourcesync Remote Configurations dialog, click the Add icon (+) on the toolbar or press Alt + Insert
Input a remote connection name and the protocol to use
Close the dialog and edit the connection details, hit Apply in order to save the configurations and then OK to exit the window.

Select the remote configuration

The remote configurations created in the previous step will be available for all projects. But Sourcesync needs a single connection to be associated with a project:

With the Navigation bar visible (View | Appearance | Navigation Bar), click the drop-down icon in the Sourcesync Configurations combo box.
Select one configuration listed under Sourcesync Configurations section.

Synchronize files

Right-click on the project, module, or even on an opened file. You will be presented with three options like in the below screenshot:

Passwordless SSH

The plugin support passwordless SSH for both SFTP and SCP connections. In order to take full advantage of this feature you are advised to create a pair of public/private keys on your local machine - where IntelliJ or PyCharm IDE resides. Then copy the public key on every remote host you will connect to: Eg:scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub my_user_id@remote_hostname_or_IP:~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub After this step is done, you should open a ssh shell to the remote machine where you will be prompted to authorize the key. Next you should open the config window and create a new SFTP connection. Then just like in the bellow picture, select Use SSH key and then browse and select the generated private key.

Also don't forget to set the username to connect on the remote machine.

Donations

Any support is graciously accepted :)

A few notes

Sync this file to remote target is only present on opened file and it will sync just that file to the remote machine.

Sync changed files to remote target will upload version tracked files that are changed but not yet committed.

Sync selected files to remote target this one is pretty straight forward. It will upload just the selected files.

If SCP protocol is used, please take note that this type of connection can only sync the file, it cannot create the entire directory tree where the file will be saved. Thus you need to have the tree created. This is not a bug of sourcesync. SCP is not a file protocol like FTP. It's only purpose is to transfer files.
For FTP and FTPS preserving timestamp is not yet supported. This is a work in progress.

Tested on

Windows 7
GNU/Linux based OS's
OS X 10.11

License

Sourcesync is licensed under MIT License. Please take a look at the LICENSE file for more informations.

Issues

Bugs can be reported at https://github.com/fioan89/sourcesync/issues

Contact

You can find me at the follwoing email address: fioan89 at gmail dot com

EboMike / sourcesync