It would be nice if Hudson ignores SCM metadata (like Subversion's ".svn"
folders) while initializing it's internal model.

The following is an example for jobs being managed via Subversion:

Jun 20, 2008 6:09:00 PM hudson.model.Hudson load
WARNING: Failed to load /data/cibuild/hudson/jobs/.svn
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /data/cibuild/hudson/jobs/.svn/config.xml (No
such file or directory)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:106)
at hudson.XmlFile.read(XmlFile.java:101)
at hudson.model.Items.load(Items.java:80)
at hudson.model.Hudson.load(Hudson.java:1324)
at hudson.model.Hudson.<init>(Hudson.java:365)
at hudson.WebAppMain$2.run(WebAppMain.java:156)
Jun 20, 2008 6:09:02 PM
org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext prepareRefresh

Cheers,
Torsten