Awesome ! Now I can go play with SVN while fishing.

woah, it really works ..... crazy

Looks like it isn't an april fool :S?

Great work, but I'll rather wait another day to see if it isn't a one-time stunt :).

Oh, nooooo!

You win one internet.

I guess SVNHub and Back to Subversion need updating...

This is actually pretty useful. Maybe. Not to me, but for some weird people who have Subversion addictions.

april fools?

What about Bazaar? It seems https://bitbucket.org/ start supporting Bazaar today!

if this is a aprils fool, it is a good one.

plz rename github to s(ubversion)h(igh-available)i(nternet)t(rash)-hub ;)

it's a very working april fools if it's a joke, either way, awesome work

It's a joke !!!!!!!!!!

I think the fact that it works makes this the best April Fools ever.

The other way around would be even better:

git clone https://mirror.github.com/https://svn.github.com/rails/rails

Aprils fool, huh? :P

Yeah, but we already have that with git-svn, peritus

Oh no! Now I still need to upgrade from CVS to SVN!

It's not a joke, I just checked out one of my own public projects too.

Peritus, the other way around works natively: git svn clone https://svn.github.com/rails/rails

When will you have CVS support? I need CVS support! What I am going to do with this 1500-pages book on CVS otherwise? I need to put that skill to use. I need CVS. Please!

Many people still waiting for CVS support in GitHub.

Awesome, now I can use git-svn to treat my Github repos as SVN remotely and git locally :D Just what I needed!

There is a bug. In one of my repositories, there is a file with accented characters and the checkout tries to quote the path but ends with a funny mess.

The project : https://github.com/plug/plugfr.org/
The file : https://github.com/plug/plugfr.org/tree/master/pub/ -> "Assemblé Générale du PLUG_2500_v02.pdf"
The path created by the SVN checkout :
plugfr.org/"pub/Assemble\314\201 Ge\314\201ne\314\201rale du PLUG_2500_v02.pdf"

lol

LOL to that

Thank god! Git users branch too much, someone needed to make it harder!

holy crap, that's awesome. a joke that is not really a joke, but is very joke like funny. genius.

This is like OSX 10.9 adding support for Windows 2 programs.

Nice April fool's joke... that actually works. Awesome guys!

So when is VSS support coming? :)

Oh my... now that's pure win ;)

Definitely surprised that it looks like this actually works. Nice one.

As much as this is likely an april fools joke... it's great for svn:externals...

This is brilliant! Not the svn part but the fact that it works is just hilarious!

hdima asked earlier about bzr (Bazaar) VCS. Well hdmia, heres how to do that locally working_together-git_and_bzr

Yeah, bzr rocks too guys!

Nice!

Awesome. Still seems to be a little rough around the edges -- if I checkout nelhage/barnowl.git, 'svn log' errors out about 10 revs back, and I don't seem to be able to di anything with any earlier revisions.

This just occurred to me: Due to the nature of git's naming objects by content, I wonder if it's possible to recover an exact copy of the original git repository by using git-svn on the subversion export, at least for some simple cases (i.e. no branching, commiter always the same as author).

I doubt there's a practical reason to want to do this, but it would be a testament to the fidelity of the export if so.

I can die happy now.

awesome. my legacy setup rejoices!

Haha, I so gonna drop git now.

I know it's a joke, but I love that it actually works.

git is too hard, let's go home.

I hate git! Finally I'll have a good place to play with my precious subversion! Long live to subversionHub! #joke #aprilfools

Genius. I can finally use GitHub as a serious developer's tool and not just a playground—glad you've seen the light and acknowledge SVN's unquestionable superiority. ;)

I can't copy the perl repository and svn log on my hailo repository fails.

I call April's fool

Well, I guess I'll finally start PAYING for a plan now...

...APRIL FOOLS

haha cool.. must have been lot of work

Someone from the Blogger team: "Yeah, but when will they have FTP support?"

Still no SCCS

Really nice feature. Not so useful for us, but definitely handy for non-git folks.

@schacon: So where is the code of gitsucka? :)

How about branches?

When can we expect Mercurial support? :-)

The only way I can stand to use svn is with git-svn. Lets see if it works:
git svn clone https://svn.github.com/schacon/simplegit.git
Initialized empty Git repository in ...simplegit.git/.git/

A   README
A   Rakefile
A   lib/simplegit.rb

Oh good! I can now enjoy the perversion of git -> svn -> git.

I don't see how a fully working and incredibly useful feature is an April Fools joke.

It's a double joke, first they trick people into thinking it's a joke, then the joke turns out to be a joke.

Does anyone have the commands for updating an old svn repo with the current git repo?

I am so confused :-)

I got an error when I checkout our project:

https://svn.github.com/mosa/MOSA-Project.git

Error: REPORT of '/mosa/MOSA-Project.git/!svn/vcc/default': 200 OK (https://svn.github.com)

April fool. :=)

oh that's just mean :-(

April fools is all about jokes not making people gullible... boo hoo...

Now go off and build us something wonderful like Versions to manage our repo's, so forgive you after that.

Enjoy easter guys ;-)

...and gals ;-)

We are fooled by the april fool —
The svn read-only access seems to be a reality...

It is not an april fool joke, I tested the sample repository above in Subclipse and it worked!

This is a real feature. This is an April Fool's joke. The two are not mutually exclusive.

oh no.

I think the fact that it works makes this the best April Fools ever.

+1. The best April Fools "jokes" are announcements like this that actually turn out to be true, much like how Gmail turned out to be real several years ago.

Now, read/write svn access available from git.git would be a real world-changer. Even if it allowed only single-branch operations without merging, this would be the point where the tortoise-svn users don't need to resist switching to git anymore. Gosh, where do I get a spec of svn's http protocol?

Sweet. Q: can one peg the svn checkout to a git tag/branch?

It couldn't connect to my private repository. URL not found error.

IDK if its a joke, but still GIT is GIT and should stay that way.

It makes it more pro than the SVN...
SVN = Small Projects
GIT = Huge and Professional ones.

Can one see the code to pull this stunt off? A companion to git-cvsserver would be awfully nice...

gooooood

such an amazing idea! I'm looking forward writing support.

Works fine for me.

Thank you!

Great great

Weird. Guess it isn't an april fools joke. But what's the point of all this?

lol

What's the right place to report bugs? I've a file that turns into seemingly random binary data but looks fine inside git.

That might be useful
however
- it seems it is not possible to checkout older revision (except the HEAD) - trying the browse remotely with TortoiseSVN does not work - trying to see the log remotely with TortoiseSVN does not work neither - and I tried on a significant (bigger than sample repo), and the checkout reported an ERROR (similar to what was already reported in previous comments)

So, this is a nice idea, good potential .. but I'll wait for next versions to see if this gets better. But right, this is really a good idea.

very good.

any chance we can have auto tracking of remote svn repos any time? that's still my number one missing feature on github.

the svn import is good, but is promptly out of date so is useless for tracking an upstream project that is sticking to svn (there can be many reasons, build systems etc).

pretty please?

Hey Scott-

I love this, but I'm still shooting myself in the foot a little bit. I've got a project that uses git submodules, which point to other repos on github. What's great is that each of these git repos now has its own svn mirror. It would be great if the svn mirror of my project could translate its github submodules into github svn externals.

Possible, impossible? I just want to use github, but offer svn for those who might still want it.

Great work, thanks!

Requesting full features (not just read only)

Adding SVN support for writing would be an amazing next step, even though github was built on git, having full svn support couldn't hurt anyone, and for those who haven't switched to git for everything, they could keep using svn on a git system until they learn.

Very very good, very crazy...

well, I think svn is more simple. I love it very much

svn write access will be awesome!
This will finally allow us to move all our projects to github... and our designers can continue to use the simple svn workflow and UI they are used to, while we developers can use git for coding and deployment.
We'll likely need to upgrade our plan to LARGE or MEGA then. Good selling point :-)
Keep up the great work.

I can checkout open projects (like your sample schacon project) but can't get it to work with my own password-protected projects. I'm using the same username and password that I'm using to login here.

I've tried with both TortoiseSVN and Subclipse.
Is there something I need to do to get it working?

Thank you. Thank you! THANK YOU!

This is awesome. Thank you!

Maybe I was a little premature with my praise. I just tried it and it's not working (even on the repository you provided in your example.)

So it looks like you can't browse the repo with TortoiseSVN, but you can do direct checkouts.

Agreed with weaverryan, would be awesome if read-only svn version of git repositories would expose and resolve their public submodules.

Cool - which of the SVN APIs are working? "checkout" worked, but "ls" didn't.

Git rocks!

I second @tehmaze - who even uses svn? :-) Give us mercurial!!! :-)

Works like charm.

Great job

Is this available for private projects?

This is actually very useful to me since I have a few projects that use svn and now I can import git dependencies directly using svn:externals. However, how can I make it use a specific branch, tag or rev?

so good, thank a lot !
when dead we can commit directly ?

It's really useful! Esp. for ones who behind firewalls that block git but svn!

cool story, bro

This doesnt work with Hudson CI, I think it's related to the fact if you browse the URL from a web browser it returns 'incomplete headers'. Hudson CI will just hang and hang trying to checkout the code and eventually returns and error something like this:

ERROR: Failed to check out https://svn.github.com/doctrine/doctrine2.git
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.SVNException: svn: can not read HTTP status line
svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/doctrine/doctrine2.git'

Best idea ever. I have a bunch of my open source projects on github, however I moved them all back to SVN (using springloops + cornerstone) as I just found git wayyy too difficult to use.

Is the goal to eventually get a full featured SVN client going, so checkout, export, browse, commit, log?

I love git, and thanks to this I'm now able to use Github with a tool that can only read from SVN! Thanks!

Unfortunately this feature don't works if you try to uses any project other than the sample one.

How can I only checkout some directories of the project?

I'm also trying to use eclipse on a cakephp project and I get the same error as @drak

I'm attempting to use this to deploy an update to TextDrive shared hosting. Get the error svn: Svndiff has invalid header. Any ideas?

I'm getting a similar problem, andyinabox. I'm assuming it's an incompatibility with older versions of svn. I was seeing it with version 1.2.3. Works fine with version 1.4.4.