I use SSHFS to work from home, and then X11-forwarding to run gitk/git-gui for the occasional git ops that take too long otherwise. But for personal projects I

I use SSHFS to work from home, and then X11-forwarding to run gitk/git-gui for the occasional git ops that take too long otherwise. But for personal projects I use syncthing, which supports .stignore, gives you versioning options, and most importantly doesn't randomly revert your files back to a previous version because of clock drift.