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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Installing
 
 This project needs libgit2, which is written in C so we need to build that as well. In order to build libgit2, you need `cmake`, `pkg-config` and a C compiler. You will also need the development packages for OpenSSL and LibSSH2 if you want to use HTTPS and SSH respectively.
 
-Run `go get github.com/libgit2/git2go` to download the code and go to your `$GOPATH/src/github.com/libgit2/git2go` dir. From there, we need to build the C code and put it into the resulting go binary.
+Run `go get -d github.com/libgit2/git2go` to download the code and go to your `$GOPATH/src/github.com/libgit2/git2go` dir. From there, we need to build the C code and put it into the resulting go binary.
 
     git submodule update --init # get libgit2
     make install