[alc277]

Just a word of advice to anybody using this approach - make sure to setup Apache(et al) to not serve .svn folders and files or someone will be able to download your code. I've always used a release shell script that does an svn export and just replaces the entire directory.

[sneak]

Or, better yet, don't put sensitive data in public web directories! Have your working copy somewhere else, and update your "svn update" script to also run an rsync with an --exclude=.svn to your web root.