@@ -279,35 +279,17 @@ Installing the development version
279279If you'd like to be able to update your Django code occasionally with the
280280latest bug fixes and improvements, follow these instructions:
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282- 1. Make sure that you have Subversion_, Git_, or Mercurial_ installed, and
283- that you can run its commands from a shell. (Enter ``svn help``,
284- ``git help``, or ``hg help`` at a shell prompt to test this.) Note that
285- the Subversion repository is the canonical source for the official
286- Git and Mercurial repositories and as such will always be the most up-to-date.
282+ 1. Make sure that you have Git_ installed and that you can run its commands
283+ from a shell. (Enter ``git help`` at a shell prompt to test this.)
287284
288- 2. Check out Django's main development branch (the 'trunk') like so:
285+ 2. Check out Django's main development branch (the 'trunk' or 'master') like
286+ so:
289287
290288 .. code-block:: bash
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292- # Subversion
293- svn co https://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk/ django-trunk
290+ git clone git://github.com/django/django.git django-trunk
294291
295- Mirrors of the Subversion repository can be obtained like so:
296-
297- .. code-block:: bash
298-
299- # Git (requires version 1.6.6 or later)
300- git clone https://github.com/django/django.git
301- # or (works with all versions)
302- git clone git://github.com/django/django.git
303-
304- # Mercurial
305- hg clone https://bitbucket.org/django/django
306-
307- .. warning ::
308-
309- These mirrors should be updated every 5 minutes but aren't guaranteed
310- to be up-to-date since they are hosted on external services.
292+ This will create a directory ``django-trunk`` in your current directory.
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3122943. Next, make sure that the Python interpreter can load Django's code. The most
313295 convenient way to do this is to `modify Python's search path`_. Add a ``.pth``
@@ -349,11 +331,8 @@ latest bug fixes and improvements, follow these instructions:
349331 known to cause problems when updating to a more recent version of Django.
350332
351333When you want to update your copy of the Django source code, just run the
352- command ``svn update`` from within the ``django-trunk`` directory. When you do
353- this, Subversion will automatically download any changes. The equivalent
354- command for Git is ``git pull``, and for Mercurial ``hg pull --update``.
334+ command ``git pull`` from within the ``django-trunk`` directory. When you do
335+ this, Git will automatically download any changes.
355336
356- .. _Subversion: http://subversion.tigris.org/
357337.. _Git: http://git-scm.com/
358- .. _Mercurial: http://mercurial.selenic.com/
359338.. _`modify Python's search path`: http://docs.python.org/install/index.html#modifying-python-s-search-path
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