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Working with files remotely

Working with files remotely - FTP Tutorial

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Working with files remotely

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- [Narrator] Working with files remotely can be fairly straightforward, as long as we're working with our own files in our own space. But there are two things we need to keep in mind when working in shared spaces. The first of these is the way that SFTP handles files. Unlike source code management and version control tools, such as Git, when we make changes to a file and upload it to a remote server or download a file that has different contents than what we have locally, the file will be fully overwritten and we won't have an opportunity to reconcile differences before making the change. If we're just working on our own files, that's usually not a problem. But if we find ourselves working on files that others also use, problems can arise. This means that we might need to coordinate our activities with others to make sure that changes don't get lost. We might ask one person to make their changes and upload the file. Then we download that file, make our changes, and then upload it…

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