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Re: Lock binairy files in Git

From
Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org>
Date
Mar 4, 2009, 15:41 UTC
Message-ID
<20090304154140.GA44969@ginosko.grantstreet.com>
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On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 05:56:48AM -0800, Henk wrote:
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> 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.
-- 
Michael
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  1. HenkMar 4, 2009
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