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...but use instead the svn server. If you're behind a firewall, you may need to use socks or something like that to get to port 3690, the port used by the svn server. To checkout a copy of the last LLVM commit in the repository, do this: $ svn checkout svn://svn.toolchain.org/svn/llvm/trunk yourDirName We try to keep the machine reasonably secure. The above will allow you to changes things, or revert them, but I don't think it will allow you to commit any changes back into the repository (well, it's not _supposed_ to, at any rate). If you want write access, you'll do the checkout...