rsync is fine, just make sure to exclude .svn and anything else you don't want the world to see, for example: cd $build_dir svn co path/to/project rsync

rsync is fine, just make sure to exclude .svn and anything else you don't want the world to see, for example: cd $build_dir svn co path/to/project rsync -qaz -c --delete --exclude=.svn project $host:/var/www