On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 09:30:59AM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: > > svn export or tar -jcf foo dir --exclude .svn isn't that "elaborate > workaround" Umm, you misunderstand what 'svn export' does, i.e. check out a tree without versioning information, i.e. without .svn directories. Diego