diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
index ede3aab..eb2d475 100644
--- a/MANIFEST
+++ b/MANIFEST
@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@
 # See below for documentation on the format of this file.
 #
 # See docs/submissions.pod and the documentation in
-# tools/dev/mk_manifest_and_skip.pl on how to recreate this file after SVN
-# has been told about new or deleted files.
+# tools/dev/mk_manifest_and_skip.pl.
 .gitignore                                                  []
 CREDITS                                                     [main]doc
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diff --git a/MANIFEST.SKIP b/MANIFEST.SKIP
index 54b4168..b226085 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.SKIP
+++ b/MANIFEST.SKIP
@@ -2,11 +2,9 @@
 # $Id$
 # generated by tools/dev/mk_manifest_and_skip.pl
 #
-# This file should contain a transcript of the svn:ignore properties
-# of the directories in the Parrot subversion repository. (Needed for
-# distributions or in general when svn is not available).
-# See docs/submissions.pod on how to recreate this file after SVN
-# has been told about new generated files.
+# This file should contain a list of directories and files created in Parrot's
+# configuration and build processes which are not meant for inclusion in
+# distributions.
 #
 # Ignore the .git directory
 \B\.git\b
diff --git a/lib/Parrot/Manifest.pm b/lib/Parrot/Manifest.pm
index 40463f1..9f6b009 100644
--- a/lib/Parrot/Manifest.pm
+++ b/lib/Parrot/Manifest.pm
@@ -173,8 +173,7 @@ sub print_manifest {
 # See below for documentation on the format of this file.
 #
 # See docs/submissions.pod and the documentation in
-# $self->{script} on how to recreate this file after SVN
-# has been told about new or deleted files.
+# $self->{script}.
 END_HEADER
 
     for my $k ( sort keys %{$manifest_lines_ref} ) {
@@ -395,11 +394,9 @@ sub _compose_manifest_skip {
 # $self->{id}
 # generated by $self->{script}
 #
-# This file should contain a transcript of the svn:ignore properties
-# of the directories in the Parrot subversion repository. (Needed for
-# distributions or in general when svn is not available).
-# See docs/submissions.pod on how to recreate this file after SVN
-# has been told about new generated files.
+# This file should contain a list of directories and files created in Parrot's
+# configuration and build processes which are not meant for inclusion in
+# distributions.
 #
 # Ignore the .git directory
 \\B\\.git\\b
diff --git a/lib/Parrot/Revision.pm b/lib/Parrot/Revision.pm
index 1b8a8f3..af0901c 100644
--- a/lib/Parrot/Revision.pm
+++ b/lib/Parrot/Revision.pm
@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2005-2008, Parrot Foundation.
+# Copyright (C) 2005-2011, Parrot Foundation.
 
 =head1 NAME
 
-Parrot::Revision - SVN Revision of Parrot
+Parrot::Revision - Revision number of Parrot
+
+B<Note:> This package is largely obsolete, as the Git version control system
+does not use a continually incrementing integer to designate a particular
+revision, as our previous CVS and Subversion VCSes did.  We retain it for
+backwards compatibility for certain high-level languages built on top of
+Parrot.
 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS