In our current version control system we lock binairy files when we edit
them. This way other developers know when a file is being edited. Is there
something simular in Git? Or is there another method to let others now I am
currently editing a file?
We need this only for binairy files, because they cannot be merged.
Henk
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Hi,
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Henk wrote:
In our current version control system we lock binairy files when we edit
them. This way other developers know when a file is being edited.
No, you cannot. Git is distributed, and therefore what you want is
fundamentally impossible.
You can write hooks, however, enforcing "locks", and make your users
install them.
But due to the fundamental impossibility of the thing, you have to risk
that this scenario fails.
It might be better to come up with a non-tool solution to the problem,
i.e. appointing people responsible for a certain set of your binary files.
That is outside the purview of Git, though.
Ciao,
Dscho
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 05:56:48AM -0800, Henk wrote:
In our current version control system we lock binairy files when we
edit them. This way other developers know when a file is being
edited. Is there something simular in Git? Or is there another
method to let others now I am currently editing a file?
We need this only for binairy files, because they cannot be merged.
You can't lock files, but perhaps you could specify a custom merge
driver to define how those files should be "merged" (for whatever
definition you choose). See
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitattributes.html
for details.
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Michael