On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- 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