Fixed #16209 -- Added notes about the DVCS mirrors to the install docs. Thanks, bedmondmark.

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@ -355,6 +355,7 @@ answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
Christian Metts
michal@plovarna.cz
Slawek Mikula <slawek dot mikula at gmail dot com>
Shawn Milochik <shawn@milochik.com>
mitakummaa@gmail.com
mmarshall
Andreas Mock <andreas.mock@web.de>

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@ -236,16 +236,34 @@ Installing the development version
If you'd like to be able to update your Django code occasionally with the
latest bug fixes and improvements, follow these instructions:
1. Make sure that you have Subversion_ installed, and that you can run its
commands from a shell. (Enter ``svn help`` at a shell prompt to test
this.)
1. Make sure that you have Subversion_, Git_, or Mercurial_ installed, and
that you can run its commands from a shell. (Enter ``svn help``,
``git help``, or ``hg help`` at a shell prompt to test this.) Note that
the Subversion repository is the canonical source for the official
Git and Mercurial repositories and as such will always be the most up-to-date.
2. Check out Django's main development branch (the 'trunk') like so:
.. code-block:: bash
# Subversion
svn co http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk/ django-trunk
Mirrors of the Subversion repository can be obtained like so:
.. code-block:: bash
# Git
git clone https://github.com/django/django.git
# Mercurial
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/django/django
.. warning ::
These mirrors should be updated every 5 minutes but aren't guaranteed
to be up-to-date since they are hosted on external services.
3. Next, make sure that the Python interpreter can load Django's code. The most
convenient way to do this is to `modify Python's search path`_. Add a ``.pth``
file containing the full path to the ``django-trunk`` directory to your
@ -288,4 +306,6 @@ this, Subversion will automatically download any changes.
.. _`download page`: http://www.djangoproject.com/download/
.. _Subversion: http://subversion.tigris.org/
.. _Git: http://git-scm.com/
.. _Mercurial: http://mercurial.selenic.com/
.. _`modify Python's search path`: http://docs.python.org/install/index.html#modifying-python-s-search-path