Is there a way to lock individual files or directories on fork when using git?

Question

We are a team of 60+ developers working on the same product and are moving from SVN to Git and GitHub. We have a process in SVN where in individual files are locked and when

Answer 1

You can use LFS and you could lock individual files, or instead jus add the files to .gitattributes file,

https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/wiki/File-Locking