Ability to change/control .svn file name?

Aloha!

I'm an old CVS user that have decided to move forward and have therefore
  just started to use Subversion. It all looks good and great elbeit it
requires slightly more on the system than CVS (which since it's
available by default in FreeBSD obviously doesn't need any extras which
makes the comparison a wee bit unfair).

One thing I reacted to when starting to use Subversion is that the local
adminstration directories in the working copy are called ".svn" instead
of CVS. I would expect it to be "svn"-something (in possibly upper case
letters).

What I'm not totally comfortable with is the use of a dot-file type of
directory. Yes, I know I can use "ls -a" to see the directory and
normally have an alias "ll" that among other things includes the "-a"
flag. But I generally prefer important things to be visible. Missing a
.svn-directory when creating a TAR-ball for example just because it was
"hidden" thereby creating problems would not be very fun. Yes, it could
easily be restored by checking out a new working copy from the repo, but
the confusion-possibility still exists.

So, is there any way I can control the dirctory naming when installing
Subversion/creating the repo or when checking out a working copy?

Is there any generally great pedagogical reason why the directory is
hidden that I'm missing?

-- 
Med vänlig hälsning, Cheers!
Joachim Strömbergson
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