From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Aguilar Subject: Re: In search of a version control system Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 20:19:26 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1349719581.76671.YahooMailNeo@web122505.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra , Maurice Francois , "git@vger.kernel.org" To: Matthieu Moy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 09 05:19:40 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TLQM7-0001rK-6Q for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2012 05:19:39 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752605Ab2JIDT2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Oct 2012 23:19:28 -0400 Received: from mail-vc0-f174.google.com ([209.85.220.174]:37553 "EHLO mail-vc0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751612Ab2JIDT1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Oct 2012 23:19:27 -0400 Received: by mail-vc0-f174.google.com with SMTP id fo13so5623983vcb.19 for ; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:19:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=FXmmm+nlOBv+eGozqZJSekKIzmg4xDZpPWrXyhT55xs=; b=lWKgn3DIWfDJqgQGzXB4kcQcna/MObU6g/u7jUcF0HtUASNDmB0v1fpC32U8/nOsEb Thot4fk/C0KIRxWKvyrVn+OwnXxa4n8DNagOsjmuyWAshWwMTEgxIGAtCgXfWtWN3/UC QOLF5m+xm8O4nbHIEgxHQZh2/4rSAkIFTKpGCSZPwRb17BpLiTEBI2O2bTVlfUtNxXs2 fBBAQYXWdqPGrXadWPwWijoXyfKaw7jR4EoS7J02BPOPR1rDr8HRb+nHxhZM//j3VORq rzpEwkm8S0Cad0F0nNoo6EQ325oqc1m15zFvOj5Kao1BYmqQySGqVmZgjgETgOglSFvf Pz0A== Received: by 10.52.68.201 with SMTP id y9mr8910713vdt.68.1349752766330; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:19:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.58.180.39 with HTTP; Mon, 8 Oct 2012 20:19:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Matthieu Moy wrote: > Ramkumar Ramachandra writes: > >>> So, is it possible to lock a file while someone work on it ? >> >> No, and I honestly think it's a bad idea. > > If you work on non-mergeable files (e.g. *.doc files. There are merge > tools for MS Word and LibreOffice, but my experience with them was not > really pleasant), then file locking is indeed not such a bad idea. gitolite to the rescue: http://sitaramc.github.com/gitolite/locking.html If you want to setup a git server, look at gitolite. It's really easy and slick. I would advise against the file locking, though. You ain't gonna need it ;-) -- David