Best way to work on one project from different PCs?

[newsettler_AI]

Hi,

not sure does this topic suits for this forum thread, but others are more specialized.

Eventually, I have to work on same project from different PCs. And I have faced with couple problems while synchronization my code.

So, I would like to ask advices. What is best way to keep project in actual state? Upload and donwload directly from github each time? Or use something like Dropbox, GoogleDrive ect?

[urbanze]

Well, I use Google Drive to sink ALL my files, and work's perfectly for me.

[kolban]

Personally, I like using Github and pushing my best so far to a branch and performing a pull/change/commit/push after ending a work session. This not only allows me to work on multiple machines but protects my source from a disk crash, virtual machine loss, and keeps a history of all changes.

If your PCs are all local then either a network attached storage device or an NFS export from one of your Linux machines will also work well.

[newsettler_AI]

What about additional files? Like sdkconfig, whole folder BUILD in project and so on.

I can just skip synchronizaion of this files, leave only .c and .h files, makefile and sdkconfig (just as here https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf-template)

But in this case there is one moment - I have to rebuild (and configure sdkconfig) project each time.
Some of PCs is not so powerfull (I remember when I built blink-example to test settings about 15-20 minutes, and then "well... lets just build other projects for next few hours"), so I would like to avoid rebuilding and reconfiguring from "make menuconfig" projects each time.

When project consisted from one c file, it was nearly acceptable just copy-paste code in it with Teamviewer.
But when projects became more complex it is so easy to make mistake, when you do it manually...