Comment 9 for bug 109730

Locking files tends to lead to problems in my expierience as people dont't unlock files in a timely manner (or at all) hindering workflow. Obviously there is a problem with unmergable files, but I don't see an easy solution.

I am not up to date with the progress of metadata in bzr, but presumably a plugin could be written to set/check a "lock flag" in metadata. Of course, locks would only be enforced if the plugin was loaded, but it would provide something to try out.

In the mean time:

bzr mv document russel_is_editing_document
bzr ci

:-) or maybe not.