Re: git lock files (Was: GIT for Microsoft Access projects)

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Fredrik Gustafsson [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 10:19:43AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:

quoted

Just because Git allows distributed workflows, doesn't mean we
should only focus on being distributed IMHO.

The question for content not being mergable easily pops up all
the time. (Game/Graphics designers, documents, all this binary
stuff, where there is no good merge driver).

I could imagine a "git lock" command which looks like this:

You do know that gitolite has locking functionality?

Yes, and it's cooking its own thing, it's not upstream (in git core I mean)

Locking is useful not just when using gitolite, but any hosting
solution I believe.