[p4] Re: Implement a "p4 checkout"

[Scott Blachowicz]

"Michael Graff" <michael.graff at diversifiedsoftware.com> wrote:

> Our folks are accustomed to serial checkouts where the first person to
> check out the file has a lock on it.  They can't check out a file if
> somebody already has it locked.  I'd like to make Perforce work this way by
> default.
> 
> I see the SCC plugin has a "lock" option that works this way.

It doesn't quite work that way...in Perforce, doing a "lock" on a file
means that nobody else can submit changes against that file.  People
can still check it out for editing, but they won't be able to submit
the changes until the lock is released. (not quite the same as "can't
check out a file if somebody already has it locked").

Scott.Blachowicz at seaslug.org