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

Here's my $0.02.

Locking is an old school of thought for textual Code. Once programmers use merging a couple of times they learn and usually like the power of it.

Valid cases for locks still exist.

• Graphics alterations. 99% of the time you cannot merge 2 peoples work on the same graphic.
• Binary updates.
• Sometimes code can be complex/simple enough to justify only 1 person working on it at a time. In this case it's a project management choice to use a feature.