title: Keeping SVN local copy clean - am I doing it wrong?
body: <p>It has been a while since I last used SVN. In my checked out local copy, <code>\myproject\</code>, there are subdirectories that my IDE generates like <code>\bin\</code>, but after checking out SVN has created <code>\trunk\</code>, <code>\branch\</code> and so on.</p>
  
  <p>It looks slightly messy to me. I would rather all my files be separated from those subdirectories; is this the norm? And if not, is there anything I can do to change it other than dump all my own files into another subdirectory <code>\dev\</code>?</p>