diff --git a/contrib/libarchive/FREEBSD-Xlist b/contrib/libarchive/FREEBSD-Xlist
index c1ccceeada8..919eb861462 100644
--- a/contrib/libarchive/FREEBSD-Xlist
+++ b/contrib/libarchive/FREEBSD-Xlist
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-$FreeBSD$
+.git
+.gitattributes
+.gitignore
 CMakeLists.txt
 CTestConfig.cmake
 INSTALL
diff --git a/contrib/libarchive/FREEBSD-upgrade b/contrib/libarchive/FREEBSD-upgrade
index 12890c33328..06356b531b3 100644
--- a/contrib/libarchive/FREEBSD-upgrade
+++ b/contrib/libarchive/FREEBSD-upgrade
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ $FreeBSD$
 
 libarchive
 
-The source code is pulled with svn:
+The source code is pulled with git:
 
-	svn checkout http://libarchive.googlecode.com/svn/release/2.8
+	git clone -b release git://github.com/libarchive/libarchive.git
 
 For the contrib directory files and directories were pruned by:
 	
@@ -21,4 +21,4 @@ To make local changes to libarchive, simply patch and commit to the trunk
 branch (aka HEAD).  Never make local changes on the vendor branch.
 
 mm@FreeBSD.org
-21-December-2011
+27-July-2012