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Re:Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To ... by w1ntermute on Friday September 14, 2012 @03:40PM (#4523561)
Even if I were using a Linux or Mac development machine, I would still have/want to develop everything remotely by mounting a network share, but that's just my situation/preference. Either way, I don't see it as a big deal. In fact, I think it's better to test the code on a remote staging server that matches your live environment than it is to use a local Linux/Mac setup that might differ from the live environment.

And yes, the remote files are directly edited. There's a volume (i.e., Z:\) on my laptop that is the remote directory I've mounted. I use Samba, but you can also use NFS by installing the necessary client software from Add/Remove Programs, if that's what you prefer.

I don't know anything about the GitHub client, so I can't help you there.

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Re:Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To ... by WiseWeasel on Friday September 14, 2012 @05:15PM (#4524003)
If I was on a Mac, I'd install OSXFUSE[1] and mount the server share through SSH. I must admit I'm a bit wary of poking an SMB hole in my server; maybe my fear is unfounded.

[1] http://osxfuse.github.com/

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