While git-svn allows you to work against an SVN repo, it takes ages to clone the full history for Xapian, so to make life easier for git users, I've set up a git mirror of the Xapian SVN repo - details here: http://xapian.org/bleeding#git I'm certainly not a git wizard, so if anything seems wrong or weird, please let me know (and thanks to Carl Worth for helping me get this far). If there's interest in doing something similar for other VCSes, I can take a look at doing so. Cheers, Olly