Re: git lock files (Was: GIT for Microsoft Access projects)

2015-06-10 Thread Fredrik Gustafsson
On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 10:19:43AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: Just because Git allows distributed workflows, doesn't mean we should only focus on being distributed IMHO. The question for content not being mergable easily pops up all the time. (Game/Graphics designers, documents, all this

Re: git lock files (Was: GIT for Microsoft Access projects)

2015-06-10 Thread Stefan Beller
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Fredrik Gustafsson iv...@iveqy.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 10:19:43AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: Just because Git allows distributed workflows, doesn't mean we should only focus on being distributed IMHO. The question for content not being mergable

git lock files (Was: GIT for Microsoft Access projects)

2015-06-09 Thread Stefan Beller
Just because Git allows distributed workflows, doesn't mean we should only focus on being distributed IMHO. The question for content not being mergable easily pops up all the time. (Game/Graphics designers, documents, all this binary stuff, where there is no good merge driver). I could imagine a

Re: git lock files (Was: GIT for Microsoft Access projects)

2015-06-09 Thread hackerp
Thanks folks, I am digesting all you have said. Now the command line I can do (I'm a programmer) but the secretary here I doubt. So is there at GUI interface for this? Does it work on Windows systems? Thanks, Paul Stefan Beller sbel...@google.com wrote: Just because Git allows

Re: git lock files (Was: GIT for Microsoft Access projects)

2015-06-09 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Tue, 9 Jun 2015 13:21:44 -0500 hack...@suddenlink.net wrote: Thanks folks, I am digesting all you have said. Now the command line I can do (I'm a programmer) but the secretary here I doubt. So is there at GUI interface for this? Does it work on Windows systems? That's why I asked

Re: git lock files (Was: GIT for Microsoft Access projects)

2015-06-09 Thread Stefan Beller
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:21 AM, hack...@suddenlink.net wrote: Thanks folks, I am digesting all you have said. I did not intend to answer your original question, but to start a discussion on the feasibility of a dedicated git lock command. There are lots of things which are checked in