[ptp-user] A command and a question about Synchronized Projects in Indig

[Corey Ashford <cjashfor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

I am evaluating the different remote project capabilities in PTP, and
I'm currently looking at the "Synchronized Project" type.

I've played around with it a bit, and so far it looks pretty cool!  I
like how transparent it is in using Git (the only synchronization option
available, it appears) to synchronize the source and target directories.

There is no online help that I could find, so I had to take some guesses
as to how to set it up, but after doing that, it sort of "just worked"
and seems to be very fast and transparent.  I even threw an existing Git
project at it, and it worked without a hitch.

One concern I have about the way it uses Git: it seems to play fast and
loose with making commits, especially to existing Git trees.  My
intuition is that some people will find it objectionable.  If I was
working on a source tree that was maintained using Git, I think I would
be annoyed too, that I would have to collapse perhaps tens of commits
into one real one.

I had set up something similar, that synchronizes the host and target
source using a shared git tree.  The synchronization step was postponed
till a build was attempted, and instead of making an actual commit, a
list of of modified+staged files is created and then rsync'd to the
target.  At some point you want to commit your changes in a series of
one or more patches, and when you do that, you do a "git reset --hard"
on the target side, and then pull after the commit(s) are pushed from
the local side.  This followed a "master repo" set-up, but I think you
could adapt it for a peer-to-peer setup.

I'm not suggesting that you switch to a similar system, but eliminating
the large number of commits that are done to the tree would be a desired
feature.

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My question: Is there any capability to deal with remotely-located
include files (for example /usr/include/string.h) ?  I couldn't find any
way to add remotely-located paths.

Thanks for your consideration,

- Corey