diff --git a/README.SVN b/README.GIT
similarity index 86%
rename from README.SVN
rename to README.GIT
index c6422829f..27180f211 100644
--- a/README.SVN
+++ b/README.GIT
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-If you are building from Subversion, run the script
+If you are building from GIT, run the script
 
 ./autogen.sh
 
 first, to make sure that you have all the necessary maintainer tools
 are installed and to build the actual configuration files.  If you
-have just updated from SVN, you should add the option "--force" to
-autogen.sh so that meta data from SVN is noticed.  Then run
+have just checked out from GIT, you should add the option "--force" to
+autogen.sh so that meta data is noticed by autom4te.cache.  Then run
 
 ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode
 
@@ -37,12 +37,12 @@ It is also possible to use the variable name AUTOMAKE, AUTOCONF,
 ACLOCAL, AUTOHEADER, GETTEXT and MSGMERGE to directly specify the name
 of the programs to run.  It is however better to use the suffix and
 prefix forms as described above because that does not require
-knowledge about the actual tools used by autgen.sh.
+knowledge about the actual tools used by autogen.sh.
 
 
 Please don't use autopoint, libtoolize or autoreconf unless you are
 the current maintainer and want to update the standard configuration
-files.  All those files should be in the SVN and only updated manually
+files.  All those files should be in GIT and only updated manually
 if the maintainer decides that newer versions are required.  The
 maintainer should also make sure that the required version of automake
 et al. are properly indicated at the top of configure.ac and take care