title: publishing a website using svn export
body: <p>I currently ftp all my files to my website when i do an update (over a slowish adsl connection)</p>
  
  <p>And I want to make things easier, so I just recently started using a hosted svn service, and i thought i could speed things up a bit by doing an svn export of my website  directly onto my webserver </p>
  
  <p>i have tried that a few times and it seems to work ok, however it does fetch the entire site everytime which is a bit slow for a 1 file update</p>
  
  <p>so my questions are</p>
  
  <p>is it possible to do an export and only get the changes since the last export (how will this handle deleted files ?)</p>
  
  <p>OR will it be easier to do an svn checkout and svn update it all the time instead of svn export and just hide the .svn folders using apache htaccess</p>
  
  <p>is this a good idea, or is there a better way to publish my website
  i am trying to achieve the 1 click deploy type ideal</p>
  
  <p>maybe there are some gotcha's i haven't thought of that someone else  has run into</p>
  
  <p>debian/apache/php </p>