Recursive clone to check out initially. To start project, fork and branch to master.

README.md

@@ -9,15 +9,18 @@ Patches are welcome! Feel free to fork and contribute to this project on
 [django]: http://www.djangoproject.com/
 [gh-playdoh]: https://github.com/mozilla/playdoh
 
+
 Requirements
 ------------
 You need Python 2.6.
 
-This project is set up to use a vendor library, i.e. a subdirectory ``vendor``
-that contains all pure Python libraries required by this project. After
-checkout, run:
+To check out playdoh, run:
 
-    git submodule update --init --recursive
+    git clone --recursive git://github.com/mozilla/playdoh.git
+
+This project is set up to use a vendor library, i.e. a subdirectory ``vendor``
+that contains all pure Python libraries required by this project. The recursive
+checkout will also clone these requirements.
 
 In addition, there are compiled libraries (such as Jinja2) that you will need
 to build yourself, either by installing them from ``pypi`` or by using your
@@ -33,6 +36,18 @@ For more information on vendor libraries, read [Packaging in Zamboni][packaging]
 [packaging]: http://jbalogh.github.com/zamboni/topics/packages/
 [virtualenv]: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv
 
+
+Starting a project based on playdoh
+-----------------------------------
+The default branch of playdoh is ``base``. To start a new project, you fork
+playdoh and start working on your app in ``master`` (branched from base). If
+you start adding pieces that should go back into playdoh, you can apply the
+patch to base and move it upstream.
+
+Eventually you'll probably diverge enough that you'll want to delete the base
+branch.
+
+
 License
 -------
 This software is licensed under the [New BSD License][BSD]. For more