Re: lock
From: Petr Baudis <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:11
Dear diary, on Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 05:31:31PM CET, I got a letter where Paolo Teti [off-list ref] said that...
Just a question probably stupid because I'm a quite new GIT user. Is possible to apply a lock (as in ClearCase) on a given file etc in order to prevent accidental check-out or any other tool operation?
Can you be a bit more detailed in the description of what do you exactly want? Do you want to lock the file so that noone else will be able to check it out? That's impossible from GIT's very nature of distributed version control system. Do you want to lock the file in your working copy so that you won't be able to remove it or change it? In that case, this is possible, but not implemented yet. Part of the solution would involve making the file read-only, the rest would be probably to make sure all the tools handle that case gracefully. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.