File Locking

Michael Smith michael.smith at thalesatm.com
Wed Oct 8 02:29:42 UTC 2008


Ian Lewis wrote:
> What about maintaining the binary files in a centralized svn repo and 
> the code in a mercurial repo? Or just maintain everything in svn or some 
> other centralized version control. If branching is not something you do 
> then using mercurial doesn't make sense. The whole point of using 
> distributed version control is that you can branch easily.

The whole project consists of models. Currently it is all in MS VSS 
which provides locking. I started to use HG because they also needed to 
share data over a WAN. In that environment locking doesn't work well 
enough regardless of the tool you are using.
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