From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: In search of a version control system Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:30:00 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1349719581.76671.YahooMailNeo@web122505.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Maurice Francois , "git\@vger.kernel.org" To: Ramkumar Ramachandra X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 08 20:30:25 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 1TLI5u-0001bZ-SK for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:30:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754526Ab2JHSaN (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Oct 2012 14:30:13 -0400 Received: from mx2.imag.fr ([129.88.30.17]:33546 "EHLO rominette.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752582Ab2JHSaL (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Oct 2012 14:30:11 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by rominette.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q98INPDN025142 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 8 Oct 2012 20:23:25 +0200 Received: from anie.imag.fr ([129.88.7.32] helo=anie) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TLI5Y-0001gy-KH; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:30:00 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Ramkumar Ramachandra's message of "Mon, 8 Oct 2012 23:54:04 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (rominette.imag.fr [129.88.30.17]); Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:23:25 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: q98INPDN025142 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1350325409.23907@aVkUJ5xvP98Je6McWmVWlw Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/