I have a website under svn and I want to patch the live website with what's currently in the repository (i.e. effectively calling svn update on the live website), but I don't want .svn directories in every folder on the production website.
Is there a way to set up svn so that the .svn folder with version information is not in the same directory as the files under version control?
In git you can create and detatch a work tree and push updates to a project this way(according to http://toroid.org/ams/git-website-howto), I basically want to be able to do something similar in svn.
svn export works similarly to a checkout but without the .svn directories. However, you cannot update such a structure since it's not a svn working copy.
You can also configure the web server to disallow access to the .svn directories and just go with the checkout+update method.