Large Binary Files

[Chris Hecker]

Interesting.  Does it keep the file read-only until it's successfully 
locked?  That's the key, so the artist doesn't accidentally modify it 
and then get hosed on checkin, they find out earlier than that.

Chris


On 2010/10/13 21:23, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
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> On 10/13/2010 11:07 PM, Chris Hecker wrote:
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>> Yeah, but still no locking, which is a key feature and the reason you
>> want centralized (and are willing to pay the usability price), and you
>> can't have a partial light checkout as far as I know.  A partial light
>> checkout (subdirectories) and locking would be a fine step towards the
>> Right Thing.
>>
>> Chris
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> There is a plugin (I don't rememeber the name offhand) that provides
> specific file locking. IIRC it prevented commits that change the file to
> succeed unless the lock was taken, etc.
>
> Certainly cooperative locking is pretty easy to implement.
>
> John
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