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by dijit 2162 days ago
This is reductionist, I am not the first to fall in line to support github here, but lets expand on what github is instead of assuming.

Github is, primarily, managed source code hosting- but it has more components, so lets break them out:

1: Source code hosting

2: Web view

3: Issue tracking

4: Project management tracking

5: Search

6: Authentication and identity (oauth2 and "applications")

7: Documentation rendering

8: Web hosting (a-la github pages)

9: CI pipeline (github actions)

SVN replaces point 1, and poorly. How many hours do you need to manage an SVN server? Very few I would wager but it at least behooves to ask the question. And it certainly behooves to understand that you're not replacing 1:1; you're replacing many things with one, and managing the above yourself can be done cheaper, but poorer, so that "poor" imitation could cost more time for using it too.

It's a very nuanced topic but an interesting one, and reductionist questions like this are not helpful.