(The svn won’t be going anywhere – further development in git will be mirrored into svn.)
I had been wanting to do this for some time, but I was finally convinced to do it when I had an hour-and-a-half-long power outage (and therefore lost Internet access) when I was about to commit a change to libfogg. The inability to do more work and keep clean development history without resorting to diffing out what would have been my commit really got to me.
Happy distributed hacking!