Large Binary Files

[Chris Hecker]

> But is locking even necessary in this day and age when we can allow
> merging in most major SCMs?

You can't merge most binary files, at least the ones used in game 
development.  How do you merge an mp3?

Chris


On 2010/10/13 21:25, Kip Warner wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 23:23 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>> 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
>> =:->
>
> But is locking even necessary in this day and age when we can allow
> merging in most major SCMs?
>