Git is dominant, and GitHub will stop supporting Subversion (SVN) next year.

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Coje_He for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com January 24, Microsoft GitHub recently posted a blog saying that it will stop supporting version control system Subversion, also known as SVN, on January 8, 2024.

Version control systems are often used in the field of software development, and Subversion and git are two mainstream version control systems. The former is a centralized version control system, and the latter is a distributed version control system. Over time, git has become a mainstream tool for developers, while Subversion has declined.

GitHub officials say that when GitHub introduced Subversion support in 2010, the version control landscape was very different. Many customers use centralized version control systems. Subversion has been around for 10 years and complements other centralized systems, while git is just emerging.

At that time, GitHub was not sure that distributed version control would eventually become mainstream, let alone that git would become the dominant version control system.

Today, 94% of git developers use it, while Subversion is much rarer than before. GitHub data shows that less than 0.02% of requests to the git backend come from Subversion, and only about 5000 repositories receive one Subversion request per month.

As a result, with the growing use of GitHub and the sharp decline in the number of Subversion requests, GitHub officially plans to focus its work entirely on git.

CTOnews.com learned that as of January 8, 2024 (about a year later), GitHub will completely stop supporting Subversion on GitHub.com. GitHub Enterprise Server, released sometime in early 2024, will also remove support for Subversion.