Re: Locking design (was Re: svn commit: r9885 - trunk/notes)

"Greg Hudson" <ghudson@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> > + -- useful info in an in-company team. Also a note, commit-log
> > + template if you will, which could be used to describe the
> > + reason for the lock to other users. So not only 'who' and
> > + 'where', but also 'why'.
>
> People may find this cumbersome; I don't think other version control
> systems generally have it.

SourceSafe and PVCS have it. In ClearCase, you check out a file against a
task. So, I'd say it's pretty common in locking version control systems.

That said, I never put anything in the comments, nor have I ever worked on a
team where others did, AFAIK.

If it's not hard to do, it might be a worthwhile feature to counter the
ubiquitous "our old VCS allowed us to do that" objection that would
inevitably arise.

Patrick Rusk

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Received on Wed May 26 19:41:03 2004