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Re: Locking files / git

From
Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 18, 2013, 21:04 UTC
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On 09/18/2013 01:15 AM, Nicolas Adenis-Lamarre wrote:
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> Ooops. It seems that each time somebody says these two words together,
> people hate him, and he is scorned by friends and family.
> 
> However,
> - gitolite implement it (but gitolite is not git).

No. It pretends to implement it, for people who absolutely must have something and are willing to play by the rules.

Quoting from the doc [1], "When git is used in a truly distributed fashion, locking is impossible".

I wrote it as a sort of bandaid, and that is all it is. "Implement" is too kind a word.

regards
sitaram
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  6. Thomas KochSep 18, 2013
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