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 #### Building
 
-You'll need an [up-to-date distribution of the Go language for your OS and architecture](https://golang.org/dl/). Once you have that, just clone the repository and run `make build`. If everything goes well, you should now have an executable named `ergo` in the base directory of the project.
+You'll need an [up-to-date distribution of the Go language for your OS and architecture](https://golang.org/dl/). Once that's installed (check the output of `go version`), just check out your desired branch or tag and run `make build`. This will produce an executable binary named `ergo` in the base directory of the project. (Ergo vendors all its dependencies, so you will not need to fetch any dependencies remotely.)
 
 ## Configuration