WC's as a virtual device?

This isn't directly about TSVN, apologies. It is about SVN and Windows shell
integration though..

Had anyone given thought to creating a Windows plugin allowing you to mount a
standard WC as a kind of virtual device? So the real WC somewhere like c:\my
docs\a\b\myproj would get mounted as something like z:\wc\myproj (other WC's
would also be in z:\wc\).

The advantages would be: no .svn's in the virtual device; copies, renames,
deletes etc could take place as normal filesystem operations. All actions
would get translated to the normal WC in a 'real' NTFS folder, so full
compatibility would be maintained. You could have commit and log buttons
in the left hand window pane.

Skilled users don't need these niceties, I ask because I'm advocating the
rollout of SVN and TSVN to about 40 office staff at work (non-programmers,
mainly for versioning Word and Excel files). In trials they keep forgetting
their training (to SVN Copy, SVN Move etc) and they go back to the old
native-windows methods, loosing version history. Hiding this totally would
be cool.

Mounting web folders is the closest at the moment, but then you can't enter
commit messages, or control when commits happen.

Thanks,

John

PS. TSVN is amazing - been using it for 2 years and never lost a byte!

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