Revision control locking: Is the jury still out?

Question

When I\'m online it seems that everyone has agreed that using the exclusive locking workflow in source control is a Bad Thing. All the new revision control systems I see app

Answer 1

I like having the option to exclusive-lock some file[s].

Having an exclusive lock is necessary, e.g. for binary files.

It's also semi-necessary for some machine-generated non-binary files (e.g. for Visual Studio project files, which don't 'merge' at all well if ever there are two parallel changes to be merged).