I don't have console access to WLL so I have to do everything with old school FTP. This means packing up projects like Zupal which have a signifacnt overhead of SVN files. So how do I delete the svn repository? with a handy little snippet I found on the net:

#!/bin/sh
echo "recursively removing .svn folders from"
pwd
rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`

You can save this as an executable script or run it from the command line after changing your directory to the root dir you are trying to scrub. Enjoy!