title: Making a production build of a PHP project with Subversion
body: <p>If you are working in PHP (or I guess any programming language) and using subversion as your source control, is there a way to take your project (for example):</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>C:\Projects\test\.svn<br>
    C:\Projects\test\docs\<br>
    C:\Projects\test\faq.php<br>
    C:\Projects\test\guestbook.php<br>
    C:\Projects\test\index.php<br>
    C:\Projects\test\test.php</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>and build/copy/whatever it so it weeds out certain files and becomes:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>C:\Projects\test\faq.php<br>
    C:\Projects\test\guestbook.php<br>
    C:\Projects\test\index.php</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>automatically? I'm getting tired of making a branch, and then going through the branch and deleting all of the ".svn" folders, the docs directory, and my prototyping files.</p>
  
  <p>I know I could probably use a .bat file to only copy the specific files I want, but I was hoping there was some way with subversion to sort of pseudo ignore a file, to where it will still version it, but where you could make a snapshot of the project that ignores the files you told it to pseudo ignore.</p>
  
  <p>I know I read online somewhere about some functionality that at least lets you copy without the .svn folders, but I can't find it now.</p>