Migrating off Assembla

If you're reading this, the Assembla invoice probably had something to do with it. Prices climbing while the product stands still is a familiar story — and it's the one that led to subforge. It was built because Assembla became non-viable for the kind of small game studios it was supposed to serve. So if your worry is "what if I just get burned again," that's exactly the worry this is meant to answer.

Good news: it's just SVN

Whatever Assembla wraps around it, your repository is a standard Subversion repository. There's no proprietary format holding your history hostage. That portability is the whole point: moving hosts should be a logistics task, not a rescue operation.

Moving your history across

subforge imports your existing SVN repository in one step, preserving authors, dates, and revisions — the full history, not just a snapshot of head. Point the importer at your existing repository, let it run, and check that your latest revisions, authors, and tags came across as expected. It's a beta and a small, single-node service, so plan the cutover for a quiet moment rather than mid-crunch.

What you get once you're here

Once you've landed: per-path and per-team access control, asset previews for images, audio, and 3D, browsing and history and diffs in the browser, and commits from any SVN client. And because the SVN repository stays the source of truth, export is plain SVN too — the door stays unlocked. You can leave whenever you want.

Why this one won't leave you stranded

subforge is independent and sustainable by design: fair pricing, proper support from the person who builds it, and no investors pushing for growth or an exit. It's small on purpose, so it's still here — and still affordable — in five years. That's the opposite of the hike-and-abandon pattern that sent you looking in the first place.

Ready to move

Short version: create an account, run the import against your Assembla repository, verify the history, and point your team's clients at the new URL. If you're migrating a live project and want a hand planning the cutover, get in touch and we'll help.