SVN, .SVN, and other meta-data directorys

sorry if this sound ignorant, but why do we need to store the
meta-data in the source tree at all, for example perforce (see preforce.com)
names the meta-data (in a env-var) and stores it in the server, one could
to something similar and store the meta-data in a known place on the local file system.

--thom wood
--p.s. i just started a collab.net this week so i am new to subversion.
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:06 2006