Intelligent Advisor

One of the features of using Subversion is Merge. I found the below statement is the OPM User's Guide under "Get updates to a file already checked out to you".

"If you attempt to get the latest version of a document from source control which is checked out to you already, you will be prompted to replace, merge, leave or cancel the operation."" ...

"Merge: will merge differences between the source controlled version and the one on your machine, potentially resulting in unexpected document content. This will not work with Word documents as they are a binary format."

Does the same hold true for a Word document checked out to someone else? I am thinking in the context of a multiple developer context.

Thank You