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For makefile-based projects, it should be possible to sync some content other than project source roots. For this case, a special support should be introduced (including the UI to add directories to the list of "replicated" ones
We should simply follow VCS model here. Our goal is very similar to VCS support: they need to copy files to VCS repository and we to remote host. The reasonable set of files is the same.
I agree that we should follow VCS here; and so we do. And apart from that, there is a possibility to explicitely download files to remote machine.