diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index f13f1ad0cd..ebd80f694f 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -24,12 +24,11 @@
     <property file="build.properties.default" />
     <property name="debuglevel" value="source,lines,vars"/>
 
-    <!-- default version and SCM information (we need the default SCM info as people may checkout with git-svn) -->
+    <!-- default version and SCM information -->
     <property name="base.version" value="1.0.9"/>
-    <property name="scm.default.path" value="cassandra/branches/cassandra-1.0.0"/>
-    <property name="scm.default.connection" value="scm:svn:http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/${scm.default.path}"/>
-    <property name="scm.default.developerConnection" value="scm:svn:https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/${scm.default.path}"/>
-    <property name="scm.default.url" value="http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/${scm.default.path}"/>
+    <property name="scm.connection" value="scm:git://git.apache.org/cassandra.git"/>
+    <property name="scm.developerConnection" value="scm:git://git.apache.org/cassandra.git"/>
+    <property name="scm.url" value="http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=tree"/>
 
     <!-- directory details -->
     <property name="basedir" value="."/>
@@ -107,14 +106,6 @@
       <available file="${build.src.java}" type="dir" />
     </condition>
 
-    <condition property="scm.provider.git-svn">
-      <available file="${basedir}/.git" type="dir"/>
-    </condition>
-
-    <condition property="scm.provider.svn">
-      <available file="${basedir}/.svn" type="dir"/>
-    </condition>
-
     <tstamp>
       <format property="YEAR" pattern="yyyy"/>
     </tstamp>
@@ -231,31 +222,6 @@
 		</wikitext-to-html>
 	</target>
 
-    <target name="scm-svn-info" description="Determines the current Subversion URL with peg revision"
-            if="scm.provider.svn">
-      <exec executable="svn" dir="${basedir}" output="${build.dir}/svn-info.xml">
-        <arg line="info --xml"/>
-      </exec>
-      <xmlproperty file="${build.dir}/svn-info.xml" collapseAttributes="true" prefix="svn" keepRoot="false"/>
-      <echo file="${build.dir}/scm.properties">
-connection=scm:svn:${svn.entry.url}@${svn.entry.commit.revision}
-developerConnection=scm:svn:${svn.entry.url}@${svn.entry.commit.revision}
-url=${svn.entry.url}?pathrev=${svn.entry.commit.revision}
-      </echo>
-      <replace file="${build.dir}/scm.properties">
-        <replacefilter token="connection=scm:svn:https:" value="connection=scm:svn:http:"/>
-        <replacefilter token="Connection=scm:svn:http:" value="Connection=scm:svn:https:"/>
-        <replacefilter token="url=${svn.entry.repository.root}" value="url=http://svn.apache.org/viewvc"/>
-      </replace>
-      <property file="${build.dir}/scm.properties" prefix="scm"/>
-    </target>
-
-    <target name="scm-info" description="Determines the SCM details"
-            unless="scm.connection" depends="scm-svn-info">
-      <property name="scm.connection" value="${scm.default.connection}"/>
-      <property name="scm.developerConnection" value="${scm.default.developerConnection}"/>
-      <property name="scm.url" value="${scm.default.url}"/>
-    </target>
     <!--
        Fetch Maven Ant Tasks and Cassandra's dependencies
        These targets are intentionally free of dependencies so that they
@@ -330,7 +296,7 @@ url=${svn.entry.url}?pathrev=${svn.entry.commit.revision}
     <!-- this task defines the dependencies that will be fetched by Maven ANT Tasks
          the dependencies are re-used for publishing artifacts to Maven Central
          in order to keep everything consistent -->
-    <target name="maven-declare-dependencies" depends="maven-ant-tasks-init, scm-info"
+    <target name="maven-declare-dependencies" depends="maven-ant-tasks-init"
             description="Define dependencies and dependency versions">
       <!-- The parent pom defines the versions of all dependencies -->
       <artifact:pom id="parent-pom"