Exclusive Checkout with plastic cloud as central node

[Joel Meyer]

Hello,

This post http://blog.plasticscm.com/2014/11/orchestrate-your-development-with.html explains how to set up exclusive checkout in a distributed server setup.

Can we use this with the official plastic cloud? Can we tell our server to use the plastic cloud server as the file locking manager?

Thank you for your answers

[calbzam]

Hi Joel,

In this blog post, we provided a solution for distributed locks but let me explain you why this is not good at all:

- If you follow this workflow, and you checkout an item, then if your coworker tries to checkout the same item, they will have a message alerting that the items is locked by you. So far do good.

- When you checkin your changes, you coworker will be able to checkout the item is his local repo. Them problem is you cannot be sure that your coworker has previouly pulled your branch so they may not be working with the last item version. So technically they will be able to locally lock the item and commit the changes. But as soon as they try to push their changes to the central repo, they will figure out that they were not working with the last version and they will need to resolve a conflict.

NOTE: It's in our roadmap to fully support distributed locks but for now our recommendation is following a centralized workflow if you need to use locks.

Regards,

Carlos.