Project Sync

Introduction

What

A simple tool based on rsync for uploading / synchronizing local project (files) to remote server.

Who

For people who want to work on a project locally (on your laptop) and sync the files to remote server. For example, developing locally and executing remotely.

Why

rsync is flexible and powerful, but flags and options are way too complex for memorizing.

Installation

$ pip install project-sync

This will install a command line tool psync, the usage of which is described below.

Usage

1. Run psync under project root to generate initial config file (.psync).

    $ cd ~/Code/demo_project
    $ psync

   It will generate the config interactively:

    You are not in a project (no .psync found)!
    Generate .psync to current directory (/Users/lazywei/Code/demo_project) [Y/n]? [Y]: Y
    Config will be generated at /Users/lazywei/Code/demo_project:
    ---
    Remote path [~/remote/path]: ~/remote/path
    SSH host [ssh_host]: aws_playground
    SSH username or enter '-' to skip [ssh_user]: -
    Files or folders to ignore (separated by space) [ ]: .git .psync
    ignores:
    - .git
    - .psync
    remote: ~/remote/path
    ssh:
      host: aws_playground
      username: null
   
    ---
    Project root is now: /Users/lazywei/Code/demo_project

2. Run psync under any nested subfolders of the project root to sync the project.

    $ psync
    Running:
      rsync -e ssh -ruaz --exclude .git --exclude .psync --rsync-path mkdir -p ~/remote/path && rsync /Users/lazywei/Code/demo_project aws_playground:~/remote/path
    --- Sync Finished ---
   
    $ ssh aws_playground "ls -a ~/remote/path/demo_project"
    .      ..     README

3. Run psync watch to watch any modification under the project root and perform sync automatically.

Usage Demo

Config Options

The config (.psync) is a YAML file. You can edit it after initial generating.

• ignores: an array contains all the files for folders to exclude by rsync
• ssh:
  • host: SSH Host
  • username: SSH username, null to ignore this (for example, when you set this in ~/.ssh/config already)
• remote: where to sync on remote server

Contributions

This project is currently in WIP stage; any discussion, bug report and PR are more than welcome.

License

psync is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.