SVN access/security concern

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Published on 2010-03-12T18:05:23Z Indexed on 2010/03/12 18:07 UTC
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I'm considering using a third party hosting company to house an SVN repository. (I'm looking at Dreamhost but this may apply to other hosts as well.)

The hosting company sets up the repository at http://svn.yourdomain.com/path. The problem I have noticed is that anyone could come along and export the files using:

svn export http://svn.yourdomain.com/path

Obviously I will need to export the files myself, but is there a way to secure this on a shared host so others don't have the ability to export this over http? Or is the real solution to manage your own SVN server?

Thanks for your thoughts.

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