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Central Repository, want locked local files like Perforce

Asked by wilbur.harvey

I have been using Perforce to manage my binary files, which are mostly PCB and schematic symbols.
These are binary files and can never be merged.
I want to force that one user cannot modify a file so long as it is checked out by another user, but all users can have read access to them so they can view or use them in a design.
This was easily accomplished with Perforce (at $900.00/person) but I haven't been able to figure out how to do it using BZR.
In Perforce, each user can have the tree on his computer/laptop, but all the files are read only, and only change to R/W when he checks out the file Anyone else can easily see who has the file checked out and when they checked it out.
I really like the idea of being able to remotely add files to my repository on my laptop when I am offline and then sync up when I get back online.

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Martin Pool (mbp) said : 		#1

Hi,

Bazaar can't do this at the moment but some people have talked about adding such a feature. It is a bit harder for a distributed vcs. For the moment we would suggest you coordinate it out-of-band by eg communicating 'locked' files on a wiki, email, etc.

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Ian Clatworthy (ian-clatworthy) said : 		#2

Martin Pool wrote:
> Question #103393 on Bazaar changed:
> https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+question/103393
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> Status: Open => Answered
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> Martin Pool proposed the following answer:
> Hi,
>
> Bazaar can't do this at the moment but some people have talked about
> adding such a feature. It is a bit harder for a distributed vcs. For
> the moment we would suggest you coordinate it out-of-band by eg
> communicating 'locked' files on a wiki, email, etc.
>

I believe Simon Kersey has a "reserve lock" plugin under development to
address this use case. I'd suggest asking on the main mailing list about
its status.

Ian C.

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