intend-to-edit flag

2013-07-04 Thread Thomas Koch
Hi, we're evaluating Git to be used in our companies Tool. But a hard requirement is the possibility to set an intend-to-edit flag on a file (better path). Notice that I did not use the word lock! :-) One easy implementation might be a special branch XYZ-locks that contains an empty blob

Re: intend-to-edit flag

2013-07-04 Thread John Keeping
On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 08:10:07PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Thomas Koch tho...@koch.ro wrote: we're evaluating Git to be used in our companies Tool. But a hard requirement is the possibility to set an intend-to-edit flag on a file (better path

Re: intend-to-edit flag

2013-07-04 Thread Thomas Koch
On Thursday, July 04, 2013 08:10:07 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: Why don't you just start using Git and see if this becomes a practical problem rather than devising some elaborate solution to work around something that probably won't be an issue anyway? I've been giving talks about Git