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Centralized VCSes can lock files. DVCSes cannot. Ergo, DVCSes are not a superset of centralized VCSes.

• steveklabnik 17y ago
  Couldn't the upstream repository just not accept changes to that file? I'm sure this could just be managed by some kind of commit hook.
  • sid0 17y ago
    Interesting. I hadn't considered that possibility. I'm more familiar with hg than with git, but from what I gathered in #mercurial, it should be possible to write a combined extension + a commit hook that: * allows people with appropriate permissions to lock and unlock files * sets locked files to read-only on pull from the canonical repository, so that users are warned beforehand that the files are locked * rejects commits that modify locked files except for by the person that holds the key There are a bunch of issues that need to be worked out, but I think the problem is tractable. Nice, thanks for the idea!