start-commit to enforce needs-lock?

I'm looking for a way to enforce the setting of the svn:needs-lock
property for new and imported files. I've read the appropriate
sections of the svnbook and read a whole lot of the mailing list
traffic. I understand that using a pre-commit hook is considered bad,
because one is modifying an in-process transaction (though as an
aside, no one has explained exactly under what conditions, i.e._why_
it is bad - the comments are all in the mode of "there be dragons").

But I notice that there is the "start-commit" hook, which happens
before the transaction is created. What's wrong with adding the
property if not present at that point?

BTW - I've read all the arguments for the supported models of source
control, Lock-Modify-Unlock, and Copy-Modify-Merge, and for reasons
that mainly relate to our userbase, we're going with the
Lock-Modify-Unlock model.

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Received on Tue Aug 7 17:12:44 2007