OT: SVN checkout checksumming

[perryh at pluto.rain.com]

> I want to use SVN to automate the update process of a custom 
> application. So, I'm planning to indicate to every PC to update 
> periodically to a specific branch of the repository. The problem
> is that I need to be sure the files where not corrupted during
> the transfer. So, I'm planning to generate the hash (SHA or MD5,
> doesn't really matters) of every file downloaded by SVN on the
> client. For this to work, I need to compare the hashes with their
> server-side equivalent ...

Do you need to mirror the entire branch, or only distribute the
latest version?  If the latter, ports/net/rsync may be what you're
looking for.