Notifications on branch checkout

[Claudio Medina]

Hello,

Since GIT doesn't support branch locking, we we're wondering if there was a way to setup email notifications or something similar when somebody checkout a brack? If not, any alternative you guys can recommend?

[Seth]

Git and Mercurial are decentralized. This means that when a user clones a repository, he now has a copy of the repository that he owns. Branch locking makes no sense in these systems, because you (the locker) don't own the repository where you want branches to be locked, that user does.

You also can't set up triggers when a person checks out a branch, because they are checking out from that local repository that they own, not yours.

[Claudio Medina]

I see what you mean, I totally overlooked that checking out ocurres locally. It would had been a nice addition though to avoid a lot of merging conflicts. Oh well, back to communication 101.

[Seth]

If somebody wants to work on a branch without interference, and you are using a central repository, that person just needs to avoid pushing their branch to that central repo.