On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 04:24:39 -0700 (PDT) Salah <khamassisa...@gmail.com> wrote:
[...] > I have a little question though: Some team developers that I > encountered would like to be able to see which files (codes) are > modified in the present > time locally. They told me that in their projects, some codes have to > be modified by one person at time. For example, developer A wants to > modify a code, but receives a notification (or some alert) that > developer B is changing the file in his local machine but that he has > not committed yet. I am > aware this stops work a little bit, but those are their requirements. > I am wondering if GIT offers this possibility to developers. No, it does not. Actually, the whole point of a DVCS system is to allow disconnected development -- you have all the history locally and are able to do any number of commits to any branch and only reconcile your work with another repository (a "reference" one, for example) when you're back online. As you could see, since you have all the history locally, and nothinhg prevents you from creating any number of branches locally and juggle code between them as you see fit, the whole point of "I am editing this source file at the moment" becomes quite moot. One another problem is that Git does not even really track file names in the sense many people expect it to, see [1]. 1. https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq#Why_does_git_not_.22track.22_renames.3F -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
