Re: Pressing need for exclusive locking

At 1:18 PM +0000 9/3/03, Ronald Cannes wrote:
>
>OK... this approach would be extremely useful, at least to our
>organization. I think one of the reasons why people like the
>edit/merge model is that they never encounter a locked file.
>However, sometimes locking a resource is outright necessary, but
>from my experience people tend to forget to unlock, even before the
>weekend.

I agree with all of this. But isn't it sufficient to provide an
unlock command (as RCS and ClearCase do)? All this lease-hold stuff
is pretty complicated, looks like a lot of code, and includes some
rather ... oh, let's call it "hand-holding" ... attitude toward
developers that doesn't sit well with me.

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