diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 2d7e79f46..62c8aada2 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ checkout -P
 
 in $HOME/.cvsrc and send us the output of "cvs diff some_file.c".
 
-We prefer patches against the current CVS version very much over
+We prefer patches against the current SVN trunk very much over
 patches against old released versions, but these are also welcome :-)
 
 source files
diff --git a/README b/README
index 643d07ba6..72274411e 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ and availability of gphoto2. Another source of information is
 
         http://sourceforge.net/projects/gphoto
 
-where you can access our CVS server to fetch the source code of
+where you can access our SVN server to fetch the source code of
 gphoto2, gtkam and GnoCam (see below).
 
 
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ It is available at the following places:
 
  - At the gphoto website: http://www.gphoto.org/
 
- - In the CVS module gphoto2-manual
+ - In the SVN module gphoto2-manual
 
 The gPhoto2 Manual includes information about setting up USB
 hotplugging.