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Re: Interest in locking mechanism?

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B Smith-Mannschott <bsmith.occs@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 12, 2010, 18:29 UTC
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On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 19:10, Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@mit.edu> wrote:
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> I have a few friends that still use RCS for their version control
> needs.  We have argued over various points between RCS and Git, and
> as far as I can tell the one thing RCS has that Git does not is
> a locking mechanism.  That is to say, co -l checks out a file and
> also gives you a lock on it, preventing others from futzing with it,
> and ci -u checks in the file and releases your lock.  This is
> useful if you have a shared working copy on a multiuser system or
> on a network file system, and you don't want conflicts.
>
> I was wondering if there would be interest in such a feature on
> the Git developers side.

How do you imagine that this would work in a distributed system such as git? What would it mean to have the lock for "a file", when each user effectively has their own branch?

// Ben
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