diff --git a/doc/manual/installation.xml b/doc/manual/installation.xml
index 15c156dab..5e29abe9f 100644
--- a/doc/manual/installation.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/installation.xml
@@ -47,17 +47,17 @@ for Red Hat, SuSE, and Fedora Core are also available.
Alternatively, the most recent sources of Nix can be obtained
from its Subversion
+xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix">git
repository. For example, the following command will check out
the latest revision into a directory called
nix:
-$ svn checkout https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nix/trunk nix
+$ git clone https://github.com/NixOS/nix
Likewise, specific releases can be obtained from the tags
-directory of the repository.
+xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/tags">tags
+ of the repository.