Because .svn directories suck.

find . -name .svn -prune -o -ofuckit

They do suck a bit, but you've got the shell and find(1) for defense.

michael@ubuntu1:~/repos4 :-) type sufi

sufi is a function

sufi () 

{ 

    find $@ -follow -name \.svn -prune -o \

        -type f ! \( -name '*~' -o -name '.*~' \) ! -name '.*sw[p-z]' -print

}

michael@ubuntu1:~/repos4 :-) sufi comp | grep svk

comp/dev/vc/svk.yodo

michael@ubuntu1:~/repos4 :-) 

So just type sufi instead of find and life sucks much less.