diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4a0daca814..670d11f013 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2006-01-29  David Hampton  <hampton@employees.org>
 
+	* README: Michael Wahlbrink's cvs to svn changes.
+
 	* src/import-export/qif-import/dialog-account-picker.c:
 	* src/import-export/hbci/gnc-hbci-gettrans.c:
 	* src/import-export/hbci/hbci-interaction.c:
diff --git a/README b/README
index ac13c9526d..a7d79fc4b9 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -407,23 +407,27 @@ SGI Irix
       http://linas.org/linux/xacc/xacc-1.0b7-sgi-irix.inst.tar
 
 
-#######################
-Getting Source with CVS
------------------------
-A read-only version of the cvs tree is available on the net.
-To access it, first, login, as so:
+##############################
+Getting Source with Subversion
+------------------------------
+A read-only version of the svn tree is available on the net at:
 
-  cvs -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.gnucash.org:/home/cvs/cvsroot login
+  http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/
 
-The password is "guest"
+To get what used to be CVS HEAD (and now includes what used to be 
+gnucash-gnome2-dev), you will need to get the svn TRUNK:
 
-To get a copy of the source in the experimental development tree do a
+  svn checkout http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk gnucash
 
-  cvs -z3 -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.gnucash.org:/home/cvs/cvsroot checkout -r HEAD gnucash
+The argument "gnucash" above can be whatever you want your local 
+directory to be called, and is optional. If you leave it out,
+you'll have a directory called "trunk" created containing all the
+source code.
 
-To get a copy of the source in the gnucash-1.8 stable production tree do a
+If you want the latest 1.8.x code, you'd need to pull from the 
+1.8 branch, as follows:
 
-  cvs -z3 -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.gnucash.org:/home/cvs/cvsroot checkout -r gnucash-1-8-branch gnucash
+  svn checkout http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/branches/1.8 gnucash-1.8
 
 
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