This is my favorite approach so far- simple, straightforward, and no complications related to offline commits or someone forgetting to remove a lock.
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Mike Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Chris Peachment <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I'm a novice Fossil user working in a small group with need >> to track both text and binary files. >> >> It seems to me that locks are nice to have for text files >> since 3 way diffs can be merged at relatively little cost. >> But inability to merge binary files might mean painful hand >> merging based on side by side comparisons for word processing >> documents or presentation slides, or based on repeating the >> edits for image files. >> >> So a lock would provide immediate warning when attempting >> checkout that someone else is probably touching the file. >> Out of band communication would be needed to gain access >> - not a bad thing and better than proceeding blindly. >> > > The problem is that locking in a distributed environment is hard to do > reliably. "Mostly" reliable could well be worse than no locking at all: you > start to depend on it, and it will then naturally fail at the worst possible > moment. > > How about an having a way to flag files - when created - as "read-only" or > some such. (I think someone else may have suggested this). Such files would > be checked out read only, and would require a "-force" to commit. A new > "readonly-glob" setting would help - causing files that matched it to be > flagged as such along the way. > > The goal is not to have locks as such, but to alert people to the fact that > a file requires out-of-band communications before it gets changed and/or > committed. > > <mike > > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > >
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