From: Paolo Teti Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:48:43 GMT Subject: Re: lock Message-ID: <34a7ae040511110848o624569cah@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051111164101.GV30496@pasky.or.cz> 2005/11/11, Petr Baudis : > Do you want to lock the file so that noone else will be able to check it > out? That's impossible from GIT's very nature of distributed version > control system. No! I know that is impossible using GIT > Do you want to lock the file in your working copy so that you won't be > able to remove it or change it? In that case, this is possible, but not > implemented yet. Part of the solution would involve making the file > read-only, the rest would be probably to make sure all the tools handle > that case gracefully. Yes! this is my case.. The as work-around I can use an hook (i.e. a kind of ClearCase trigger). But remain a work-around!