tar: add all files and directories in current directory INCLUDING .svn and so on

I try to tar.gz a directory and use

tar -czf workspace.tar.gz *

The resulting tar includes .svn directories in subdirs but NOT in the current directory (as * gets expanded to only ‘visible’ files before it is passed to tar

I tried to

tar -czf workspace.tar.gz . instead but then I am getting an error because ‘.’ has changed while reading:

tar: ./workspace.tar.gz: file changed as we read it

Is there a trick so that * matches all files (including dot-prefixed) in a directory?

(using bash on Linux SLES-11 (2.6.27.19)

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