Gitolite has a fine implementation of locking in Git. http://gitolite.com/gitolite/locking/#locking-binary-files http://gitolite.com/gitolite/locking/#locking-

Gitolite has a fine implementation of locking in Git. http://gitolite.com/gitolite/locking/#locking-binary-files http://gitolite.com/gitolite/locking/#locking-binary-files Locking is implemented centrally by gitolite. It would be nice if other services implemented the same mini-protocol.