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From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Locking files / git
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 02:34:36 +0530
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On 09/18/2013 01:15 AM, Nicolas Adenis-Lamarre wrote:
> Ooops. It seems that each time somebody says these two words together,
> people hate him, and he is scorned by friends and family.
> 
> However,
> - gitolite implement it (but gitolite is not git).

No.  It pretends to implement it, for people who absolutely must have
something and are willing to play by the rules.

Quoting from the doc [1], "When git is used in a truly distributed
fashion, locking is impossible".

I wrote it as a sort of bandaid, and that is all it is.  "Implement" is
too kind a word.

regards

sitaram