diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e09b271c..f335670d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ Using hg-fast-export is quite simple for a mercurial repository <repo>:
 mkdir repo-git # or whatever
 cd repo-git
 git init
-hg-fast-export.sh -r <repo>
+hg-fast-export.sh -r <local-repo>
+git checkout HEAD
 ```
 
 Please note that hg-fast-export does not automatically check out the