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Summary On January 8, 2024, we will turn off Subversion support in GitHub.com. We will also turn off Subversion support in the first GitHub Enterprise Server release after January 8, 2024. Intended...

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[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Makes sense though. It enabled them to siphon off existing SVN codebases from — whatever the hell they were doing previously — and facilitate their transfer to git.

[–] steventhedev@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

First turned on in 2010.

Git-svn was always the blessed path for converting. GitHub supporting svn was more about getting heterogeneous orgs to buy enterprise subscriptions.