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 ## Clone this git project on your machine
 
+From a location where you want to place your local clone of this repository (e.g. `~/Projects`)
+
 ```
 $ git clone git@github.com:zcash/zcash-gitian.git
 ```
 
+cd into the project repo
+
+```
+$ cd zcash-gitian
+zcash-gitian
+```
+
 
 
 ## Add git config values to gitian.yml