Hi Maurice, Maurice Francois wrote: > The needs are not that big, that is to say it is academic and research projects. A project can have dozens of > Word, PDF and program files (Stata do-files, SAS programs, SPPS syntaxe > files and R scripts) and their corresponding log files. Note that Git wasn't designed for big binary files, and doesn't perform well between them. > Like many people, I hesitate between Git and Subversion. I honestly cannot comprehend why someone would choose Subversion over Git for a fresh repository today. > I like the idea of distributed version control system. But is that such a system eliminates the need for a real server ? Can we just set up a repository on one of the computers in our workplace and give access to that repository via a local connection or via a remote VPN connection ? Yes, you can have a "blessed" server, just like in Subversion. And yes, you can access it over git://, http://, https://, or ssh://. > So, is it possible to lock a file while someone work on it ? No, and I honestly think it's a bad idea. Read up more about Git, and try to understand how people work with it. Ram -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html