[development] Publishing data from legacy svn repository

Hi, I'm working on a project where I need to publish data stored in svn, so instead of coming from the Drupal database, the node body would come from checked out (read only) files on the server (it could be any VCS for that matter). Each file would be associated with a node (automatically or manually), or could be displayed via a different mechanism altogether using an appropriate loader. There is plenty of information on using svn for development, staging or deployment purposes, but I could not find anything on the topic I'm interested in here. Has anyone worked with such workflow and care to share either code or the lessons they learnt? Steph.