questions regarding svn metadata (.svn)

I'm trying to figure out a few things about the .svn directories. I
can't seem to find much about them...I've searched around on Google, SVN
docs, Forums, and Mailing Lists. It's hard to search for because I am
not sure what keywords people use when talking about them. Searching
for .svn is a bit useless...

So:

* have there ever been any discussions about using a different style for
storing the metadata - e.g. ala perforce - instead of .svn files/dirs
everywhere? I don't want to start a new discussion on this topic
without having read any existing discourse

* are there any good sources for how to hide this information from
everyday unix tools like find and so on (I know how to use various
parameters, or | grep -v svn --- but I want something a bit more
automatic)?

Thanks!

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Received on Sun Aug 26 19:51:12 2007