Can I use my SVN as a staging/dev site?

I currently SVN everything to a local server. I am aware that everything is compressed down to a DB-like format (Berkley?). Is there anyway to leve开发者_如何学运维rage my repo as a dev/staging server or am I going to have to go the "old-fashioned" route?

You can setup a working directory ( checkout ) of the repo on the same server and have a post-commit hook setup in it which will update the working directory on every commit.