Patent Document ID: 8612407
Application ID: 13552323

Base Claim:
1. A method for source control in a program, the program comprising a plurality of hierarchical files for execution of a plurality of processes, the hierarchical files comprising parent files and child files, said method comprising: identifying a process of the plurality of processes selected by a user on a graphical user interface, the selected process including less than all of the files in the program; identifying files in the selected process; locking the files in the selected process with a source control processor, said locking of the files in the selected process including disallowing revisions to the files in the selected process; identifying at least one file that is a descendent of a file in the selected process; and locking the at least one file that is a descendent of the file in the selected process with the source control processor, said locking of the at least one file that is a descendent of the file in the selected process including disallowing revisions to the at least one file that is a descendent of the file in the selected process, the at least one file that is a descendent of the file in the selected process is not included in the selected process.

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Claim 7:
7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said locking of the files in the selected process includes: identifying a file having at least one sibling file, wherein the identified file is included in the selected process, and wherein the at least one sibling file is not included in the selected process; locking the identified file; and leaving the at least one sibling file unlocked.