Is there a check out lock in hg ?

Fri Dec 15 21:34:17 UTC 2006

On 12/15/06, T.J. Yang <tj_yang at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> I don't really know. All I know now this locking feature is very
> essential feature for rcs users to migrate over to hg.

Why?  If they want to continue with a centralized, pessimistic-locking
based process why would they bother with a decentralized SCM system at
all?  There are plenty of centralized SCMs that support pessimistic
locking that are big improvements over rcs.

Thanks,
John