[masklinn]

> Using a working copy allows you to deploy your website faster and safer

It's clearly faster, it clearly is not safer, as the article demonstrate: if you forget to configure Apache to ignore the repo folders, your source code becomes available to the world.

> you can have hooks to do some cleanup and rollbacks are almost free

Export to versioned directories, then use symlinks to link your core to the right version of the site, and you get rollbacks for free as well. The only thing a WC gets you is deployment speed.