title: svn checkout and update without the .svn directory
body: <p>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.</p>
  
  <p>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?</p>
  
  <p>In git you can create and detatch a work tree and push updates to a project this way(according to <a href="http://toroid.org/ams/git-website-howto" rel="noreferrer">http://toroid.org/ams/git-website-howto</a>), I basically want to be able to do something similar in svn. </p>