Hey fellas, Am working on a tool with syncs a live wordpress site to the local machine, it only pulls or pushes files that were changed after the last sync(much like a git) but here with ftp/sftp. And it also clones the database seamlessly(includes replacing urls in the serialized data). We are looking to roll out beta in the coming weeks. Interested ones can reply to this thread as well. By the way I am interested to learn about your behaviour when it comes to WP development. Do you have a local development environment where you develop first? Or do you work directly on the server?

Thanks a ton.