SVNCopy - move/copy/sync WCs...

A couple days ago I proposed a feature enhancement to TortoiseSVN and
was initially rejected outright. Put simply, this moves/copies/syncs a
WC very quickly between a PC and a laptop over a network without
incurring a version increase on the central repository. I developed the
following (free) tool called SVNCopy that accomplishes that purpose:

http://www.cubiclesoft.com/Unrelated/SVNCopy.zip

It apparently works well enough that TSVN developers recommended that I
forward my request to this list because it does some version-dependent
things to achieve its overall performance. The program itself has
_default_ dependencies on TortoiseMerge, XCOPY, and the NT series of
Windows (NT/2000/XP), but please just recognize this as a
proof-of-concept tool and not a set of requirements.

This tool allows me to copy just the files of a large WC to my laptop in
3 seconds or less from my PC - including all changes. Then I can take
this anywhere - a meeting, lunch, outside, a business trip, etc. When I
return, I use SVNCopy again to copy the WC back to the PC from the
laptop - again only taking a couple seconds. Neither of these
operations consumes a revision.

If someone accidentally edits both WCs, SVNCopy attempts to merge/sync
the two WCs before performing the main operation. Essentially, it is
unlikely to fail in even accidental editing scenarios.

I'm willing to share my source code if this is a feature you guys are
interested in developing into an API that will be able to trickle down
to TSVN. A couple of commercial companies that I've approached that use
TSVN are quite interested in SVNCopy and a number of developers are
already using it. Essentially, SVNCopy makes it possible to create
"mobile WCs".

Given that this is just a proof-of-concept tool and is already
moderately popular, I would love to see something similar show up in
Subversion and ultimately TortoiseSVN as an official feature.

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