Thanks for your book. It has been most enlightening on managing Drupal projects.

I'm having trouble with SVN and the files directory. Specifically, all the sub dir/files that Drupal creates. Since they are owned by 'nobody', when I run SVN it chokes on them since it doesn't have write permissions, which adds locks and generally buggers up the check out.

Constantly scanning the files dir for new items to chmod doesn't seem practical.

While pouring over your excellent book for clues, I noticed (page 116 figure 5-5) in the Trac log of commits that the 5th commit has the message "moved files directory out of version control"

How do you deal with this? Is keeping the files dir in the repository possible without lots of intervention?