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Pragmatic Version Control Using Git
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Pragmatic Version Control Using Git

by Travis Swicegood
December 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
184 pages
4h 47m
English
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1.9 Locking Options

When you go to the library to check out a book (not this one, because you bought a copy, right?), no one else can check it out again until you turn it back in.

The reason for this is simple: when the library has only one copy of the book, it can’t physically give it to more than one person at a time. When a lot of people first hear the word check out and that it relates to version control, they automatically think that version control must be like a library—only one person making changes at a time.

Some VCSs do work like this. You ask the repository if you can have the settings.py file to make some changes. It says yes and then prevents everyone else from making changes until you check it back in.

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