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by tasty_freeze 839 days ago
I've been using perforce continuously since 2000. It is rare to lock files. The only case I'm aware of are things that are binary blobs to perforce, eg, if you open a windows .doc file to edit it. But 99.9% of the time I'm operating on text files of one kind or another and perforce doesn't lock it; it is the usual merge and then sync/resolve if anyone has changed the file since you opened it.