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> since they're not tied to just one DCVS.

Just for the record, neither is GitHub. :) We've supported Subversion for almost three years now.

I think he means hg(mercurial). I don't think svn is considered a DCVS, though the fact that you guys support traditional CVS is great.

Does the hg-git extension (http://hg-git.github.com/) not suffice?

It's a definite help but no.

Subversion is not DVCS.