Bitbake recently converted from SVN to GIT.  As such, many users may be wondering where to get the latest and greatest updates.  The new repository has moved to git://git.openembedded.org/bitbake.git.

To checkout Bitbake 1.8.18 (the latest as of this writing), use the following instructions:

$ git clone git://openembedded.org/bitbake.git
$ cd bitbake
$ git checkout 1.8.18

You can see a list of current tags and upgrade to a specific one, if desired:

$ git tag -l