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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.
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.