Difference between checkout and export in SVN

Question

What is the exact difference between SVN checkout and SVN export?

From what I know, export does not include the .svn directory which include metadata, and checkout inclu

Answer 1

(To complement Gerald's answer...) One further subtle difference is that, although the command:

svn checkout ...repos_location/my_dir .

puts the files in my_dir into the current directory (with the .svn folder)

in certain versions of the svn, the command:

svn export ...repos_location/my_dir .

will create a folder called my_dir in the current directory and then place the exported files inside it.