What is the reason Capistrano does not have Deploy::Strategy::Update?

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Published on 2010-05-28T20:21:38Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 20:32 UTC
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I use svn update to deploy, but have recently explored Capistrano. I see they support checkout, export, copy, and update+copy, but not just update. Is it frowned upon to use an svn working directory as a deployment directory and why?

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