From: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 03:19:26 GMT
Subject: Re: In search of a version control system
Message-ID: <CAJDDKr5PxM3a6TjfdVoCp1VzgCFBKQ6YGhpN-BO-D=CyVTQX3w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqa9vwstp3.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> So, is it possible to lock a file while someone work on it ?
>>
>> No, and I honestly think it's a bad idea.
>
> If you work on non-mergeable files (e.g. *.doc files. There are merge
> tools for MS Word and LibreOffice, but my experience with them was not
> really pleasant), then file locking is indeed not such a bad idea.

gitolite to the rescue:

http://sitaramc.github.com/gitolite/locking.html

If you want to setup a git server, look at gitolite.
It's really easy and slick.

I would advise against the file locking, though.  You ain't gonna need it ;-)
-- 
David