> i'm not too keen on having to manually do these transfers since it wastes > time.
How about rsync? > also, there a number of packages and configuration changes i've made to the > webserver that the code is supposed to run on, making it inconvenient to > replicate such a setup on the local machine where i'm coding. Doing this would be a good exercise since you can document it at the same time, facilitating recovery if you have a problem with the webserver.
