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by zozbot234 1534 days ago
Why is SVN still in use? You can use a tool like reposurgeon to convert your full repo history to git.
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I can't talk for the parent, but in our company, we've made the change hg -> git (using self-hosted bitbucket) and it was quite a costly endeavor time-wise (between testing, configuring and installing BB, converting/moving all the repos, making the changes to our in-house build system, changing all our code signing system (because it wasn't git-compatible) and supporting all the devs who've never used git (or haven't in a long time and forgot everything)), so I can understand not wanting to change what's working.
We use git for all software projects, SVN for all hardware projects. I am not certain about the reasons why hardware department still uses SVN. Probably because every hardware engineer is familiar with SVN and it works for them.
Not the parent, but we use it to store binaries. Code is in git.