[chef] Is it possible to have the chef repo in svn instead of git

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Hi,

I am new to Chef and have been able to install the Chef server on an RHEL
machine and chef-client version 11.16.4 on a windows machine.

When running the knife cookbook site install <cookbook name> command on 
windows
I get an error stating that the folder e:/chef-repo/cookbooks is not a git
repository.

The setup steps for chef-repo state that it is not necessary to use git and 
one
can download the tar, extract it and then commit to the source control of
choice (SVN or CSV).

Is this correct? Is there a setting that needs to be changed to enable knife 
to
work with SVN instead of GIT?

Thanks,
Vikas