I did a stupid thing. That said, I was using an idiot-proof web interface and it let me do it, so I figured it was cool.
I wanted to password protect subdirectories within my Subversion repository. Accepting from the beginning that this isn’t possible in the literal sense, I went for the next best thing – making repositories mapped to what appear to be subdirectories of the base repository. I could then set these ‘subrepositories” to private, and give the illusion of a seamless repository with private subdirectories.
This worked for a while, and then suddenly (a month later when I checked it again) all repositories in the system were totally wiped.
This is a Dreamhost Happy Subversion Robot issue, not an issue with SVN in general. Tech support says “you shouldn’t have done that.” I’ve lost a year’s worth of accumulated Flash code.
Don’t do what I did.
I still think Dreamhost is awesome, despite this loss.