jibe

jibe watches the specified project files and uploads changes over SSH whenever a file is saved (or a file is added). Jibe also obeys .gitignore files, so that only files that should be included in your repository will be synced.

Why use jibe?

jibe allows you to work on a git project from the comfort of your favorite computer (and editor) while running and testing on another machine. This is especially useful for projects with hardware requirements or environments that are not easily reproducable on your dev machine. It does, however, require that the remote machine have an SSH server.

Writing a GPIO program for the Raspberry Pi, for example, would be a great use case for jibe.

Installation

npm install jibe-sync -g

Using jibe

jibe srcDir user@host:path

jibe's command line parameters work kind of like scp, but with a twist. If path ends in a forward slash, a new directory is created on the remote server with the same name as srcDir, otherwise it will be synced directly to the directory specified by path.

Example usage

Let's say your were inside of a directory named example, and it happened to also be the root directory of a git repository. Running the following command: jibe . user@server:~/ would create a directory named example in user's home directory on server and sync the project there. If I wanted to rename the project directory on server I would instead run the command jibe . user@server:~/exampleRenamed