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

EXPORT

that's it. You don't have any good reason to put extra junk into production system.

• You'll expose your source code
• If this is web application it's even worse, your visitors can download your source code, how cool is that! very open :)