From: Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org>
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:41:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Lock binairy files in Git
Message-ID: <20090304154140.GA44969@ginosko.grantstreet.com>
In-Reply-To: <1236175008046-2422894.post@n2.nabble.com>

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.

-- 
Michael