Hi, > in Tortoise SVN, there is no method of locking a file until it has been > changed .
Incorrect. locking, requiring locking and lock communication are supported by both plain svn and TortoiseSVN. https://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-locking.html http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.locking.html > or knowing who is actually working on a file. Incorrect, this is shown in both TortoiseSVN and svn cli. Andreas