From: Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:43:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Interest in locking mechanism?
Message-ID: <1263325308-sup-5516@ezyang>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f91001121133r62b3d748n38ca27234f18e960@mail.gmail.com>

Excerpts from Martin Langhoff's message of Tue Jan 12 14:33:18 -0500 2010:
> So write your own "git-lock" command that does "chmod g-w $@";
> git-unlock reenables the group-writable bit. Done.

That was what I was thinking of doing (with modestly more cleverness for
recursive operation), and maybe some convenience flags for git-commit
for automatically unlocking or preserving the lock across a commit.

Cheers,
Edward