file locking and binary files

From what I've read, it appears subversion doesn't support file locking. Is
this the case?

One of the huge advantages of subversion over CVS (at least from my
perspective) is that it stores binary files as differences. CVS' only
drawback is that it makes a complete copy for every commit. One word
changes in 30MB binary file cause the repository to explode.

So, subversion solves this problem - good stuff. But it seems to force
merging over file-locking. This just isn't possible for most binary files.
This seems to suggest that file locking for binary files would make the
support for binary files complete. Are there any plans to implement the
same sort of edit, unedit file locking in subversion?

Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place. Any alternate suggestions for general
purpose revision control are appreciated. CAD files are what I'm worried
about right now, but I would like something that works for Word, Adobe, and
ideally source files (I use cvs for that now).

Thanks in advance,
Clint

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Received on Fri Nov 15 18:45:38 2002