Gitlab has been working fine for me all the time. Both webpage and repro access.
Maybe some routing on the way.
Or maybe your IP was in the same range as that of someone doing malicious stuff?
btw.
What do I need to do change my SVN URL in the existing trunk I have ? I am using the windows desk top version of it.
I know where the URL properties are, do I need only to change that or do I need to do a complete checkout again ?
The url is on the github site. Just drop down the "clone" button. (as if you wanted the git link / svn is the same link)
Since github reverse translates git to svn, all the revision numbers will have changed. I doubt you can simply change the url in your client. (But I have not tested, maybe it does something useful, or at least recoverable...)
I guess remove the current checkout, and do a new checkout.
And again, while the choice to use this is there, the svn revision numbers will be useless in conversations about what works and what does not.
No one in the team (afaik) has that checkout. So we will have no idea what any rev number actually points to.