Is there a check out lock in hg ?

[T.J. Yang]

>From: "John D. Mitchell" <jdmitchell at gmail.com>
>To: "T.J. Yang" <tj_yang at hotmail.com>
>CC: mercurial at selenic.com
>Subject: Re: Re: Is there a check out lock in hg ?
>Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:34:17 -0800
>
>On 12/15/06, T.J. Yang <tj_yang at hotmail.com> wrote:
>[...]
>>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.

Actually, I am using RCS as decentralized SCM. that is why I am
interested about hg. Also I am using it for Unix system configuration file 
SCM
not source code SCM. I shouldn't have said rcs users(implied all others), it 
should be just my case.

hg without file locking support will be just another cons I need to consider 
before I push for the change(switching from  RCS).

Thanks for your response.

I hope I am not consuming too much resources here with beginners' question.

Regards

tj

>Thanks,
>John

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