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diff --git a/README b/README
index 72a9609..c7d390d 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -27,35 +27,18 @@ There are two ways to get a source tree:
 
   which contains GHC itself and the "boot" libraries.
 
-  2. Check out the source code from darcs
-  ---------------------------------------
+  2. Check out the source code from git
+  -------------------------------------
 
-  The recommended way to get a darcs checkout is to start off by
-  downloading a snapshot with a name like:
+  First get the GHC git repository:
 
-      ghc-HEAD-2009-09-09-ghc-corelibs-testsuite.tar.bz2
+    $ git clone http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc.git/
 
-  from:
-
-      http://darcs.haskell.org/
-
-  and then untar it and bring it up-to-date with:
-
-     $ cd ghc
-     $ ./darcs-all get
-
-
-  Alternatively you can use darcs to get the repos, but it will take a
-  lot longer. First get the GHC darcs repository:
-
-    $ darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc/
-
-  Then run the darcs-all script in that repository
+  Then run the sync-all script in that repository
   to get the other repositories:
 
      $ cd ghc
-     $ chmod +x darcs-all
-     $ ./darcs-all get
+     $ ./sync-all get
 
   This checks out the "boot" packages.
 
@@ -71,7 +54,7 @@ NB. you need GHC installed in order to build GHC, because the compiler
 is itself written in Haskell.  For instructions on how to port GHC to a
 new platform, see the Building Guide.
 
-If you're building from darcs sources (as opposed to a source
+If you're building from git sources (as opposed to a source
 distribution) then you also need to install Happy [4] and Alex [5].
 
 For building library documentation, you'll need Haddock [6].  To build
@@ -86,13 +69,12 @@ Quick start:  the following gives you a default build:
     $ make install
 
 The "perl boot" step is only necessary if this is a tree checked out
-from darcs.  For source distributions downloaded from GHC's web site,
+from git.  For source distributions downloaded from GHC's web site,
 this step has already been performed.
 
 These steps give you the default build, which includes everything
 optimised and built in various ways (eg. profiling libs are built).
-It can take a long time.  To customise the build, see the file
-HACKING.
+It can take a long time.  To customise the build, see the file HACKING.