I have Aptana Studio 3 set up using the Deployment Wizard to sync changes in both directions from local/remote for my projects. This works fine for syncing local changes to the remote site; my changes get FTP’d up automatically.
It doesn’t seem to be working out when a file has changed remotely – there have been several situations where I’ve opened a file that has been modified by someone else since I last downloaded it, and the remote changes have not been downloaded to my local copy.
I’ve been manually synchronising directories before starting to work on them but this is a bit of an annoying workaround. Is it possible for Aptana to automatically check for remote changes, and sync my local copy?
I found a bug report which pretty much answers my own question: https://jira.appcelerator.org/browse/APSTUD-2811
Unfortunately it doesn’t look like this is going to be fixed any time soon. It’s a pretty essential feature IMO, especially for those working in teams.