I was there. And at some point I wondered if I should learn git, darcs, or bazaar, to replace SVN or CVS. Or did I try mercurial too ?
I wonder if the "GitHub" effect has basically killed the need for a newcomer in the space of VCS. Maybe at some point, the yak is shaved enough ?
No, but seriously, I wrote https://andrew-quinn.me/reposurgeon for a reason. While I actually see some big benefits to SVN over git for areas with large binary assets like game development, the tool is just so ancient these days that it's just easier for me to convert SVN repos to git repos and then use those to figure out what I actually need to do. It feels a lot like working with Laplace transforms, translating and un-translating between two not quite equal ways of measuring reality.
That's not even considering that the kinds of companies still using SVN in 2025 tend to have a lot of code to wade through. Serious selection effects in play there -- mostly for good, to be clear.