If you're working on source code, can't you just upload patches (diffs) and apply them on the other end via remote desktop or SSH? Likewise with compiling execu

If you're working on source code, can't you just upload patches (diffs) and apply them on the other end via remote desktop or SSH? Likewise with compiling executables; instead of doing them on your end and uploading the result, could you do it server-side?