For a half semester long project a group of five or less individuals will be working together on a project which has been distributed to them (and must be turned into for grading) as a folder of .doc(x), .xls(x), etc., files. One file in particular will see most of the editing --- a .xlsx file.
Members will be using TortoiseSVN to commit changes/do checkouts. How well will SVN facilitate collaborative editing in this instance?--e.g., how would svn handle merging of the same file edited in different ways by two different clients?