I had a whole response ready, but it looks like Steven Frank - one of the founders and devs at Panic - replied in the comments and addressed all the issues: "W

I had a whole response ready, but it looks like Steven Frank - one of the founders and devs at Panic - replied in the comments and addressed all the issues: "We edit directly on a server — but not our production server. We have a staging server which is an identical clone of the production server, and also a Subversion working copy. A deployment script syncs everything over to production when it’s ready, which is a separate operation from committing it to the svn repo. Ever since we shipped Coda 1, we’ve learned that there are as many ways to set up a web development infrastructure as there are web developers. There’s no way we could be a perfect fit for everyone’s workflow, so we concentrated on what we perceived to be the most common workflows, and those that would the most generally adaptable." http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2012/may/22/on-coda-2-and-diet-coda/#c167677 http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2012/may/22/on-coda-2-and-diet-cod...