NetBeans on multiple machines
Ricardus <RiIvarson <at> gmail.com>
2012-02-08 11:04:42 GMT
BenSheppard wrote:
> I'm not sure I made my question clear, what I mean is, for example, on Computer A I have loaded several
projects into NetBeans, now I move to Computer B, I install a fresh copy of NetBeans, is there an easy way to
make all my projects appear on Computer B that are on Computer A i.e driving them from a single file
location, or do I have to add all the projects I wish to work on manually into the software on Computer B.
Well, if these computers A, B etc are networked, maybe you could use a shared network folder to store the one
Netbeans project and all computers use it?
Is this too slow (slow networks make the editing and compiling of Netbeans projects a nightmare), or is
there a need to work simultaneously from the computers A, B etc on the same project?
Because that's the case for my project. So I started using the source code management system named Git
invented by Linus Torvalds. It's pretty easy and logical to use (once you got the first steps right). Also
it doesn't need a server or network drive but can use them of course. http://git-scm.com/
Also there's a pure Java plugin for Git in Netbeans since NB 7.1, in contrast to the other source code
management systems which you need external plugins and native binaries for.
And there's a good tutorial how to use Git in Netbeans: http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/ide/git.html
(There's a simplified general tutorial on the Git homepage, where you can ignore the single shell commands
because in Netbeans you do the same via GUI.)