Re: Lock binairy files in Git

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