A friend and I are trying to work together by using dropbox as the synchronization medium right now. We want to have our project be so that when we hit save, our changes are shown on the other's computer, and the changes are also uploaded to a remote server using FTP as well.
Project is set up at: .../Dropbox/Foo/Website
We both access the same project and open it up in netbeans.
A save from one PC updates the other. The problem is that every time one person saves, it messes up the connection setting preferences on the other person's computer. It is a constant tug of war over the personal configuration file.
Is there a way we can both work together on this? We need very quick synchronization, and we also need to be able to push our content through FTP as well. Preferably with as much automation as possible.
Solutions I began to try but decided were too annoying (so far):
On file system save detected, use custom FTP program to sync to ftp server
On file system sync detected, set project properties file's data to be correct before netbeans FTP upload can begin. (This failed, "The requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped section open")
Manually uploading files using a secondary FTP client like Filezilla.
Git (Way too many rapid micro changes at this stage of development)
