I am quite sure that you can edit files in an svn repo to your heart’s content regardless of whether anyone else is editing them on their machine at the same time.
Yep, svn has a lock feature but it is opt-in per file (possibly filetype?)
A pretty good tradeoff, because you can set it on complex structured files (e.g. PSDs and the like) to avoid the ballache of getting a conflict in an unmergeable file but it does not block code edition.
And importantly anyone can steal locks by default. So a colleague forgetting to unlock and going on holidays does not require finding a repo admin.
A pretty good tradeoff, because you can set it on complex structured files (e.g. PSDs and the like) to avoid the ballache of getting a conflict in an unmergeable file but it does not block code edition.
And importantly anyone can steal locks by default. So a colleague forgetting to unlock and going on holidays does not require finding a repo admin.