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Network effects for distributed VC are quite weak, it's one of the reasons git was able to displace alternatives relatively quietly, and why mercurial is able to soldier on despite git's visible dominance.

didn't save svn

SVN is doing just fine

I'm sure it is. For the few people who use it. Once upon a time, it was the dominant versioning system out there. But it was supplanted by git. And it was supplanted for a reason. And network effects didn't protect it from being replaced by git.

What is your point exactly?

It's unfair to consider network effects when it comes to SVN because it was a very different time on the internet with no major centralized code hosting SaaS like GitHub.

Nowadays even companies (that would in the past self-host) rely on SaaS and are thus swayed by network effects of whatever is popular.

It was not supplanted by git, but by Github

That's objectively false.