simplified git setup instructions w/help from madduck

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@@ -1,36 +1,38 @@
 Here's how to get ikiwiki. See [[setup]] for how to use it, and be sure to
 add your wiki to [[IkiwikiUsers]] if you use ikiwiki.
 
-# tarball
+## tarball
 
 The best place to download a tarball of the latest release is from 
 <http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/ikiwiki>.
 
-# packages
+Installation steps and requirements are listed on the [[install]] page.
 
-If using Debian (since 4.0), or Ubuntu (since 6.10):
-
-        apt-get install ikiwiki
+## packages
 
+If using Debian (since 4.0), or Ubuntu (since 6.10):
+[[template id=note text="""
 Note that Debian 4.0 and especially Ubuntu 6.10 contain older versions of
 ikiwiki, there have been lots of enhancements and bug fixes since those
 versions.
+"""]]
+
+        apt-get install ikiwiki
 
 Or download the deb from <http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/ikiwiki>.
 
-While this deb has been developed on Debian unstable, it should also work
-on stable, although to get the CGI stuff working on stable, you will need
-to upgrade to a newer version of libcgi-formbuilder-perl, `3.05`.
+There is a backport of a recent version of ikiwiki for Debian 4.0 at
+<http://packages.debian.org/etch-backports/ikiwiki>.
 
-There is also an unofficial backport of ikiwiki for Debian 'sarge', provided by
+There is also an unofficial backport of ikiwiki for Debian 3.1, provided by
 Paweł Tęcza, at <http://gpa.net.icm.edu.pl/debian/>.
 
 Also. FreeBSD has ikiwiki in its
 [ports collection](http://www.freshports.org/www/ikiwiki/).
 
-# revision control
+## revision control
 
-## subversion
+### subversion
 
 The current development version of ikiwiki can be accessed using subversion at 
 `svn://ikiwiki.info/ikiwiki/trunk`
@@ -43,13 +45,14 @@ Commits to ikiwiki's source code are now fed into
 [project page](http://cia.vc/stats/project/ikiwiki). Note that changes
 to the documentation wiki are currently excluded.
 
-## git
+### git
 
 A git mirror of the trunk of the subversion repository is available at
-<http://ikiwiki.info/ikiwiki.git/.git>. It is updated whenever
-changes are committed to the subversion repository.
+`git://ikiwiki.info/` and also at <http://ikiwiki.info/ikiwiki.git/>.
+It is updated using `git-svnimport` whenever changes are committed to the
+subversion repository.
 
-## arch
+### arch
 
 An unofficial arch mirror of the subversion repository is at
 <http://arch.debian.org/arch/private/srivasta/archive-2006-misc>