Git Migration: github with svn access

[Geert Janssens]

On maandag 7 november 2011, Geert Janssens wrote:
> On maandag 7 november 2011, Christian Stimming wrote:
> > If we decided to move not only to git, but also to github, we'd solve
> > most of the build script integration issues: github offers the
> > additional feature of accessing its git repos also by a svn client, see
> > 
> >    https://github.com/blog/966-improved-subversion-client-support
> 
> Very interesting. I wasn't aware of this.
> 
I tried a simple svn checkout of our gnucash git repo, but wasn't successful:
$ svn checkout https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git gnucash-git-svn
svn: Server sent unexpected return value (502 Bad Gateway) in response to 
OPTIONS request for 'https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash.git'

I have no idea why though. Has anyone else managed to successfully checkout 
the git repo via the svn interface ?

Geert