Thanks to the marvelous job of our KDE sysadmins, digiKam is another project to join the git repository. All the code (digiKam, kipi-plugins) that lived in the SVN is no more accessible through SVN and all is part of git now. DigiKam and its dependencies live in several repos, but thanks to Marcel Wiesweg, you can use a nice small script, that will get you going:
1) Edit your ~/.gitconfig as given in
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://digikam.org/news/2011-02-07_digikam_has_migrated_to_git/