Re: Pressing need for exclusive locking

>>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,

Is that really so?

>and includes some rather ... oh, let's call it "hand-holding" ... attitude
>toward developers that doesn't sit well with me.

All this model means is that people can lock files, but if they don't hold
their part of the lease, well..., then the lock disappears. No need to force
unlocks, people can see who locked a resource and when it will be available.

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