diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 7cd60de7..082fa02e 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ python:
   - 3.4
 env:
   - VIM_VERSION="74"
-  - VIM_VERSION="mercurial"
+  - VIM_VERSION="git"
   # - VIM_VERSION="NEOVIM"
 
 install:
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ install:
    - until sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kalakris/tmux -y; do sleep 10; done
    - until sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neovim-ppa/unstable -y; do sleep 10; done
    - until sudo apt-get update -qq; do sleep 10; done
-   - until sudo apt-get install -qq -y --force-yes tmux xclip gdb neovim mercurial; do sleep 10; done
+   - until sudo apt-get install -qq -y --force-yes tmux xclip gdb neovim git; do sleep 10; done
    - ./travis_install.sh
 
 script:
diff --git a/travis_install.sh b/travis_install.sh
index d0db0775..da42e385 100755
--- a/travis_install.sh
+++ b/travis_install.sh
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ build_vanilla_vim () {
       until curl ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.4.tar.bz2 -o vim.tar.bz2; do sleep 10; done
       tar xjf vim.tar.bz2
       cd vim${VIM_VERSION}
-   elif [[ $VIM_VERSION == "mercurial" ]]; then
-      hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ vim
+   elif [[ $VIM_VERSION == "git" ]]; then
+      git clone https://github.com/vim/vim
       cd vim
    fi
 
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ build_vanilla_vim () {
    rm -rf vim_build
 }
 
-if [[ $VIM_VERSION = "74" || $VIM_VERSION = "mercurial" ]]; then
+if [[ $VIM_VERSION = "74" || $VIM_VERSION = "git" ]]; then
    build_vanilla_vim
 elif [[ $VIM_VERSION == "NEOVIM" ]]; then
    PIP=$(which pip)
diff --git a/travis_test.sh b/travis_test.sh
index 1a6a24a1..d9dcd469 100755
--- a/travis_test.sh
+++ b/travis_test.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ set -ex
 PYTHON="python${TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION}"
 PYTHON_CMD="$(which ${PYTHON})"
 
-if [[ $VIM_VERSION = "74" || $VIM_VERSION = "mercurial" ]]; then
+if [[ $VIM_VERSION = "74" || $VIM_VERSION = "git" ]]; then
    INTERFACE="--interface tmux"
    VIM="${HOME}/bin/vim"
    # This is needed so that vim finds the shared libraries it was build against -