Lock binairy files in Git

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. 

Henk

Hi,

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Henk wrote:

No, you cannot. Git is distributed, and therefore what you want is fundamentally impossible.

You can write hooks, however, enforcing "locks", and make your users install them.

But due to the fundamental impossibility of the thing, you have to risk that this scenario fails.

It might be better to come up with a non-tool solution to the problem, i.e. appointing people responsible for a certain set of your binary files. That is outside the purview of Git, though.

Ciao, Dscho

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 05:56:48AM -0800, Henk wrote:

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.