More like an old dude trying to learn a new trick. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and guiding me down the right path.  It is much appreciated. ------------------------ Keith Smith --- On Wed, 3/7/12, Matt Graham wrote: From: Matt Graham Subject: Re: GIT and Github - howto. To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 5:43 PM From: keith smith > Thanks James.  What is everyone else doing[?]  I'm sure others have > had the problem of needing to "check out" code so others cannot > modify the file. Lock->modify->check in->unlock is the old way, dude.  You can *do* that using SVN, but you're discouraged from doing so repeatedly in the documentation. Apparently, now you're supposed to grab everything, modify things, then merge, handling conflicts/breakage via your brain.  This makes it easier to modify parts of a huge project.  (It can create problems for small projects with few developers, but who cares about those projects, anyway?)  Note that these problems were also present in older things like CVS, but CVS is very infra dig now because it's so annoying to move/rename things in CVS. If you *need* exclusive locking, git is the wrong source-code versioning system to use.  But as Alan said, you probably don't need exclusive locking as much as you think. -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog:  http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss