locked files

[kolgrima]

I currently use Collanos for my hobby game development as I cannot set up my own server for SVN or Perforce, and it’s perfect. The only thing I would love to see added is a check-in/out system like (insert your favourite version control here), where files that are checked-out are locked (or can be locked) so no one can even work on them if they are currently in use.

Cheers

[Franco Dal Molin]

Document versioning and check-in/out systems are typically server-centric. This is needed, due to the nature of the problem. In a "symmetric" peer to peer system, where nobody is the "master", it is a very hard (and depending on constraints, even impossible) thing to do. See also here for related discussions: http://forum.collanos.com/index.php?topic=1303.0 or http://forum.collanos.com/index.php?topic=1122.0.

In a server-less system, locking can really only be guaranteed if ALL users formally agree with it (all must be online), or, if the LOCK is created when the object is created, and always stays with the object in a managed way.

We will certainly continue to research this topic. Hopefully we will soon find a simple yet workable solution.

[hannesd]

for a shared version controll tool have look at mercurial or git.