How to best update a website from subversion

Question

I have a PHP website backed by a MySQL database and a small team of programmers submitting code to subversion. Typically we write code, test it locally, commit to subversio

Answer 1

I would recommend:

• copying each old build to its own directory (for quick restores; you probably only need to keep one of these) in a non-web-accessible part of your server.
• Then use svn export to get the entire new build from svn. Don't use svn checkout, as this will leave .svn directories all over the place.