SVN checkout or export for production environment?

Question

In a project I am working on, we have an ongoing discussion amongst the dev team - should the production environment be deployed as a checkout from the SVN repository or as

Answer 1

Personally I'm always in doubt about the solution of this problem, I prefer having no ".svn" directories around my production environment, it's very dirty but at the same time, export is very tedious with large web applications (especially if using some 3rd parties "components" like Extjs,FCKeditor etc..).

I think there are not "killer solutions" at this moment.