Because I had VisualSVN already set up on Windows 7 as SVN server, and Git can support Git SVN, so will using these two be a good solution
1) for now
2) for the long term?
(that is, as opposed to setting up a Git repo with a machine running ssh daemon, which is non-standard on a PC)
Based on this blog post, it looks like git can co-exist happily on a VisualSVN server. I think probably the only bit you’d need to be wary of is the upgrade – if you separated all the git config stuff into a configuration file and then included it from the main one, you ought to be fine.