Workflows and possible solutions for dreamweaver users

[hamann.w at t-online.de]

>> Hi all,
>> 
>> We are web developers and I'm struggling to find a solution to a
>> work-flow problem. We are going to use a version control system, I'm
>> incline to use mercurial of course.
>> 
>> I'm in charge to find a solution for this situation because I'm the only
>> who has enough gnu/Linux skills, and can configure an old computer in
>> the office for this task.
>> 
>> My co-workers work-flow
>> =======================
>> 
>> They use dreamweaver for editing PHP files in a live environment (I know
>> is a bad practice) in this way:
>> 
>> 1. From a menu they "open" the web site location, dreamveawer knows
>> where the files are on the net.
>> 
>> 2. They navigate in the file system end select the file for edit
>> 
>> 3. dreamweaver actually download the file and it puts in a directory
>> following the remote paths. Example: if you edit ~/dira/dirb/file.txt it
>> create the path under c:\myWeb\dira\dirb\file.txt
>> 
>> 4. When they save, dreamweaver write the local file and uploads it to
>> the remote location.

Hi,
if the local file is on a linux storage (i.e. you can use a samba share for that),
it should be possible to use linux Inotify system.
So every time a file is written in the local store, mercurial could be asked to commit
the changes (and auto-add the new file)

Regards
Wolfgang