On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, Peter Münster wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 26 2013, Mica Semrick wrote:
>
>> @Peter github makes collaboration quite painless. Users can manage their own
>> accounts.
>
> I like git because of its features. And when I don't need those
> features, I prefer svn because of its simplicity. Where is the pain?

The last time I tried, merging multiple version in svn is a huge pain. One 
of the advantages of DVCS is that branching and merging are easy.

> What would be the benefit when moving to github?

Github seems to be the most popular DVCS hosting site at the moment. For 
manuals, I think that Github is particularly useful because you can click 
on edit and make the change. Github automatically creates a fork, a new 
branch, and pull request for you. So the technical barrier to 
participation is low.

> -1 (not worth the trouble for me)
>
> (On the other hand, if you sent me some bitcoins, I would be glad to
> copy contextman to github. ;)

https://github.com/nirvdrum/svn2git

Using this is usually as simple as

svn2git http://svn.example.com/path/to/repo

Aditya