From f81cbb00c623a14ae750e1ee0751f0ba2cf2e4e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: beorn7 <beorn@soundcloud.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:53:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add warning about tarballs.

---
 README.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 253a9d46f5f..4c321d510be 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ it will be the recommended way of installing Prometheus.
 
 ### Use `make`
 
+Clone the repository in the usual way with `git clone`. _Do not
+download and unpack the source archives provided by GitHub._ (The
+makefile depends on running in a git repository. This will be fixed
+eventually.)
+
 In most circumstances, the following should work:
 
     $ make build